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CVE-2014-2830

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-2830 describes a critical stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability within cifs-utils versions prior to 6.4, specifically affecting cifskey.c or cifscreds.c, as used in pam_cifscreds. This flaw allows remote attackers to achieve complete compromise (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) through unspecified vectors, earning a CVSS score of 10.0. Despite its maximum severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:debian:cifs-utils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0514 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: samba
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: samba3x
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: cifs-utils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: cifs-utils

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-2830Moderate

cifs-utils: stack-based buffer overflow flaw in pam_cifscreds

Apr 8, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0242.html
bugs.mageia.org / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.novell.com / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q2/96
lists.samba.org / archive/samba-technical/2014-July/101132.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201612-08
mandriva.com / security/advisories