Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-2855

Title: Samba Rsync Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-2855.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Apr 23, 2014

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.12%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-2855: The check_secret function in authenticate.c in rsync 3.1.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a user name which does not exist in the secrets file.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0065.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131910.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/57948 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:131 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/14/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/15/1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2171-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsync/+bug/1307230 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10551 https://git.samba.org/?p=rsync.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0dedfbce2c1b851684ba658861fe9d620636c56a http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0065.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131910.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/57948 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:131 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/14/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/15/1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2171-1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsync/+bug/1307230 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10551 https://git.samba.org/?p=rsync.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0dedfbce2c1b851684ba658861fe9d620636c56a

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-2855 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 23, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.