CVE-2020-10745

HIGH

Samba < 4.10.17, < 4.11.11, < 4.12.4 - Denial of Service via NetBios over TCP/IP

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00030.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00054.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-15
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00002.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00041.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.1966
EPSS Percentile 95.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (5)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject/fedora 31
opensuse/leap 15.1
opensuse/leap 15.2
samba/samba 4.0.0 - 4.10.17
Published Jul 07, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026