TI-2020-08605 Aliases CVE-2020-10704 GHSA-hxwv-6335-26h5

Uncontrolled recursion in Red Hat samba

LOW 39CWE-674Published 2020-05-06 · Updated 2024-08-04

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-674.

Summary

A flaw was found when using samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller. Due to the way samba handles certain requests as an Active Directory Domain Controller LDAP server, an unauthorized user can cause a stack overflow leading to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This issue affects all samba versions before 4.10.15, before 4.11.8 and before 4.12.2.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.03542 89th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed samba (Red Hat): 4.10.15, 4.11.8, 4.12.2

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Red Hat	samba	before 4.10.15; before 4.11.8; before 4.12.2	4.10.15, 4.11.8, 4.12.2	Patch available	CNA

samba VendorRed Hat Affected before 4.10.15; before 4.11.8; before 4.12.2 Fixed in 4.10.15, 4.11.8, 4.12.2 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 5

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba::::::::	4.0.0 to before 4.10.15; 4.11.0 to before 4.11.8; 4.12.0 to before 4.12.2	Vulnerable	Samba
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:::::::*	30	Vulnerable	Fedoraproject
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:::::::*	31	Vulnerable	Fedoraproject
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:::::::*	15.2	Vulnerable	openSUSE
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*	9.0	Vulnerable	Debian

cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 4.0.0 to before 4.10.15; 4.11.0 to before 4.11.8; 4.12.0 to before 4.12.2 Vulnerable ·Samba
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 30 Vulnerable ·Fedoraproject
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 31 Vulnerable ·Fedoraproject
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 15.2 Vulnerable ·openSUSE
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 9.0 Vulnerable ·Debian

Remediation

Fix · CNA samba (Red Hat) Fixed in 4.10.15, 4.11.8, 4.12.2

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

Advisory · 2020-05-04
Red Hat samba — FEDORA-2020-9cf0b1c8f1
2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2020-08601 Use after free in Red Hat sambaPriority LOW 28
Show all 2 records → Advisory →
Advisory · 2020-05-04
Red Hat samba — FEDORA-2020-e244c98af5
2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2020-08601 Use after free in Red Hat sambaPriority LOW 28
Show all 2 records → Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 5 products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Storage 3

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-10704
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hxwv-6335-26h5

References

Advisory 8

TI-2019-15875 Protection mechanism failure in Jenkins Pipeline: Groovy Plugin KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
TI-2019-15874 Protection mechanism failure in Jenkins Script Security Plugin KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
TI-2019-08259 Underflow in PHP-FPM can lead to RCE KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2019-05363 Code injection in Elastic Kibana KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
TI-2019-03949 Out-of-bounds write in ESXi and Horizon DaaS KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2018-16080 A code execution vulnerability exists in the Stapler web framework used by Jenkins 2.153… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8

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Sources

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