Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-27840

Title: Samba Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-27840.

CWE Category CWE-125
Published Date May 12, 2021
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
3.83%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-27840: A flaw was found in samba. Spaces used in a string around a domain name (DN), while supposed to be ignored, can cause invalid DN strings with spaces to instead write a zero-byte into out-of-bounds memory, resulting in a crash. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Impacted Vendors

S
samba 1
S
sgi 1

Reference Links

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941400 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00036.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VLZ74IF2N75VQSIHBL4B3P5WKWQCXSRY/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X5J3B6PN5XMXF3OHYBNHDKZ3XFSUGY4L/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZXP3ONIY6MB4C5LDZV4YL5KJCES3UX24/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-22 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210326-0007/ https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4884 https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-27840.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941400 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00036.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VLZ74IF2N75VQSIHBL4B3P5WKWQCXSRY/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X5J3B6PN5XMXF3OHYBNHDKZ3XFSUGY4L/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZXP3ONIY6MB4C5LDZV4YL5KJCES3UX24/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-22 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210326-0007/ https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4884 https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-27840.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 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-2020-27840 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

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.