CVE & CISA-KEV CatalogNVD
CVE-2004-2687
HIGHEPSS 100th pctl9.3
CVSS v2
Description
distcc 2.x, as used in XCode 1.5 and others, when not configured to restrict access to the server port, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via compilation jobs, which are executed by the server without authorization checks.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
80.98%probability of exploitation in 30 days
100thpercentile
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-03/0183.html
- http://distcc.samba.org/security.html
- http://lists.samba.org/archive/distcc/2004q3/002550.html
- http://lists.samba.org/archive/distcc/2004q3/002562.html
- http://www.metasploit.org/projects/Framework/exploits.html#distcc_exec
- http://www.osvdb.org/13378
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