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CVE-2018-1050
All versions of Samba from 4.0.0 onwards are vulnerable to a denial of service attack when the RPC spoolss service is configured to be run…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 6.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
All versions of Samba from 4.0.0 onwards are vulnerable to a denial of service attack when the RPC spoolss service is configured to be run as an external daemon. Missing input sanitization checks on some of the input parameters to spoolss RPC calls could cause the print spooler service to crash.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.5% · top 6.2% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
References
18
- USN-3595-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 103387 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2613 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2612 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1883 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-4135 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-3595-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1860 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3056 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201805-07 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 1040493 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180327 [SECURITY] [DLA 1320-1] samba security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190409 [SECURITY] [DLA 1754-1] samba security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://help.ecostruxureit.com/display/public/UADCE725/Security+fixes+in+StruxureWare+Data+Center+Expert+v7.6.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-1050.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbns03834en_us (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1538771 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180313-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-11704 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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