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CVE-2004-2687

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-2687 describes a critical vulnerability in distcc 2.x, affecting products like Apple Xcode and Samba, where an unrestricted server port allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands without authorization during compilation jobs. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.3, indicating a severe risk with network-based attacks, low attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the CISA KEV catalog, exploit modules exist in Metasploit and Nuclei, and it has a high EPSS score and significant community discussion, suggesting active exploitation or widespread scanning.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:xcode:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2.18.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
88.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: DistCC Daemon Command Execution · Feb 1, 2002
Nuclei: CVE-2004-2687 · Aug 1, 2024
ExploitDB: EDB-9915 · Feb 1, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.8820 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 8,914 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2005-03/0183.html
distcc.samba.org / security.html
lists.samba.org / archive/distcc/2004q3/002550.html
lists.samba.org / archive/distcc/2004q3/002562.html
metasploit.org / projects/Framework/exploits.html
Exploit
osvdb.org / 13378