THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2025-9640 (MEDIUM 4.3) — A flaw was found in Samba, in the vfs_streams_xattr module, where uninitialized heap memory could be written into alternate data streams. This allows an authenticated user to read residual memory content that may include sensitive data, resulting in an information disclosure vuln
[NVD] CVE-2025-9640 (MEDIUM 4.3) — A flaw was found in Samba, in the vfs_streams_xattr module, where uninitialized heap memory could be written into alternate data streams. This allows an authenticated user to read residual memory content that may include sensitive data, resulting in an information disclosure vuln
CVE-2025-9640 CVSS: 4.3 MEDIUM Published: 2025-10-15T13:16:01.997
A flaw was found in Samba, in the vfs_streams_xattr module, where uninitialized heap memory could be written into alternate data streams. This allows an authenticated user to read residual memory content that may include sensitive data, resulting in an information disclosure vulnerability.
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2025-9640cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9640