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CVE-2011-2724

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-2724 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Samba versions 3.5.10 and earlier, specifically within the mount.cifs component. Local attackers can exploit improper validation of device name and mountpoint strings to corrupt the mtab file. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 1.2, indicating a local attack vector with high attack complexity and only a partial impact on availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.5.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.9.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:1.9.17:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.2LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: samba3x-0:3.5.4-0.83.el5_7.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: cifs-utils-0:4.8.1-2.el6_1.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: samba-0:3.5.6-86.el6_1.4
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: samba
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: samba

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-2724Low

cifs-utils: mount.cifs incorrect fix for CVE-2010-0547

Jul 29, 2011

References

comments.gmane.org / gmane.linux.kernel.cifs/3827
Patch
git.samba.org
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/07/29/9
Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/45798
Vendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-1220.html
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-1221.html
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id