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CVE-2023-42670

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A flaw was found in Samba.

Vendor / product: Samba — samba

A flaw was found in Samba. It is susceptible to a vulnerability where multiple incompatible RPC listeners can be initiated, causing disruptions in the AD DC service. When Samba's RPC server experiences a high load or unresponsiveness, servers intended for non-AD DC purposes (for example, NT4-emulation "classic DCs") can erroneously start and compete for the same unix domain sockets. This issue leads to partial query responses from the AD DC, causing issues such as "The procedure number is out of range" when using tools like Active Directory Users. This flaw allows an attacker to disrupt AD DC services.

CVSS
6.5
6.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2023-11-03 08:15
Modified: 2026-11-07 12:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 4 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-07 12:18 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

samba / samba <4.17.12, ≥4.18.0 <4.18.8, ≥4.19.0 <4.19.1
fedoraproject / fedora 39

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 NVD-CWE-noinfo

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2023-42670.html
Vendor advisory: https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2023-42670.html

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-07 12:18 UTC · record ↗

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