CVE-2020-10700
A use-after-free flaw was found in the way samba AD DC LDAP servers, handled 'Paged Results' control is combined with the 'ASQ' control.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.02%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A use-after-free flaw was found in the way samba AD DC LDAP servers, handled 'Paged Results' control is combined with the 'ASQ' control. A malicious user in a samba AD could use this flaw to cause denial of service. This issue affects all samba versions before 4.10.15, before 4.11.8 and before 4.12.2.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.02% probability · 81th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- Affected
- samba/samba · fedoraproject/fedora · opensuse/leap
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 2.0% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00054.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10700Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- 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/WG54NRMES2GTURZKZH6H4BGXCD3OMJDJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y7DVGCHG3XPIBQ5ETGMGW7MXNOO4HFH4/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-15Third Party Advisory
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-10700.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00054.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10700Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- 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/WG54NRMES2GTURZKZH6H4BGXCD3OMJDJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y7DVGCHG3XPIBQ5ETGMGW7MXNOO4HFH4/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-15Third Party Advisory
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-10700.htmlVendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.