Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-10704

Title: Samba Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-10704.

CWE Category CWE-674
Published Date May 06, 2020
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
3.45%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-10704: A flaw was found when using samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller. Due to the way samba handles certain requests as an Active Directory Domain Controller LDAP server, an unauthorized user can cause a stack overflow leading to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This issue affects all samba versions before 4.10.15, before 4.11.8 and before 4.12.2.

Impacted Vendors

S
samba 1
S
sgi 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00054.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00002.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10704 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00041.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U5KW3ZO35NVDO57JSBZHTQZOS3AIQ5QE/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y7DVGCHG3XPIBQ5ETGMGW7MXNOO4HFH4/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-15 https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-10704.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00054.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00002.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10704 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00041.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U5KW3ZO35NVDO57JSBZHTQZOS3AIQ5QE/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y7DVGCHG3XPIBQ5ETGMGW7MXNOO4HFH4/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-15 https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-10704.html
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2020-10704 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.