CVE-2020-10745
This flaw allows a remote attacker could to cause the Samba server to consume excessive CPU use, resulting in a denial of service.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.87%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A flaw was found in all Samba versions before 4.10.17, before 4.11.11 and before 4.12.4 in the way it processed NetBios over TCP/IP. This flaw allows a remote attacker could to cause the Samba server to consume excessive CPU use, resulting in a denial of service. This highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 3.87% probability · 90th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- samba/samba · fedoraproject/fedora · opensuse/leap · debian/debian linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00030.htmlMailing List, Third Party 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=1849491%3B
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00041.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6YLNQ5GRXUKYRUAOFZ4DUBVN4SMTL6Q2/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-15Third Party Advisory
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-10745.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00030.htmlMailing List, Third Party 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=1849491%3B
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00041.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6YLNQ5GRXUKYRUAOFZ4DUBVN4SMTL6Q2/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-15Third Party Advisory
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-10745.htmlVendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.