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CVE-2023-34966

55
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-34966 is an infinite loop vulnerability in Samba's mdssvc RPC service, affecting Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, and Samba itself. An unauthenticated attacker can trigger a denial of service by sending a malformed RPC request that causes the service to consume 100% CPU. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this flaw is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is currently no public exploit code available, and the vulnerability shows minimal community discussion or media coverage, indicating it is not actively exploited.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.16.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.17.0, < 4.17.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.18.0, < 4.18.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
37CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
38CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
60.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6033 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: samba-0:4.18.6-1.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update SupportFixed in: samba-0:4.15.5-15.el8_6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update SupportFixed in: samba-0:4.17.5-5.el8_8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: samba-0:4.18.6-100.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: samba-0:4.17.5-105.el9_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: samba-0:4.15.5-15.el8_6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2023-34966Moderate

samba: infinite loop in mdssvc RPC service for spotlight

Jul 19, 2023

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/BPCSGND7LO467AJGR5DYBGZLTCGTOBCC
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/OT74M42E6C36W7PQVY3OS4ZM7DVYB64Z
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20230731-0010
debian.org / security/2023/dsa-5477
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2023:6667
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2023:7139
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:0423
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:0580
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:4101
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2023-34966
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
samba.org / samba/security/CVE-2023-34966
Vendor Advisory