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CVE-2023-42670

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-42670 is a medium-severity flaw in Samba, specifically affecting Fedora and Samba products, where incompatible RPC listeners can be initiated, disrupting Active Directory Domain Controller (AD DC) services. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 6.5, allows an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by triggering partial query responses and errors like "The procedure number is out of range." There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite limited community discussion and media coverage, the potential for service disruption warrants attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.17.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.18.0, < 4.18.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.19.0, < 4.19.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
39CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0110 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

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 (2)

denopatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
keraspatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch

Vendor Advisories (3)

denollm-deno-650ac71876afb4f8CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP 2 Security Updates

Apr 12, 2024
kerasllm-keras-d13bbd8768a57997CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP 2 Security Updates

Apr 12, 2024
redhatCVE-2023-42670Moderate

samba: AD DC Busy RPC multiple listener DoS

Oct 10, 2023

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZUMVALLFFDFC53JZMUWA6HPD7HUGAP5I
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20231124-0002
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2023-42670
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
bugzilla.samba.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
samba.org / samba/security/CVE-2023-42670.html
Vendor Advisory