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CVE-2004-2546

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-2546 describes multiple memory leaks in Samba versions prior to 3.0.6, affecting various Samba and Trustix Secure Linux products. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.4, indicating a medium severity, and allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service through network-based attacks that consume memory. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not on the CISA KEV catalog, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.9.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:1.9.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:1.9.17:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:1.9.17:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:1.9.17:p4:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:1.9.17:p5:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0291 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-2546

CVE-2004-2546

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17139
samba.org / samba/history/samba-3.0.6.html
trustix.org / errata/2004/0043