THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2010-3069
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2010-3069

Samba vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
10.5%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based buffer overflow in the (1) sid_parse and (2) dom_sid_parse functions in Samba before 3.5.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Windows Security ID (SID) on a file share.
Affected vendor
Samba
Affected product
Samba
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2010-09-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 10.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2010-3069.
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