CVE-2004-2687

highpriority · attend · 78EPSS 0.882 · 100 %ileexploit · weaponizedEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

9 exploits · weaponized

Likely / severe?

88.2% (100th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-22

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

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-16USprimary

exploits (9)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

exploit/unix/misc/distcc_execDistCC Daemon Command Executionweaponized · metasploit
EDB-9915DistCC Daemon - Command Execution (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
aish19siddiqua-commits/mtechweek_04Metasploit-based penetration test on an isolated Metasploitable2 lab VM — remote exploitation via DistCC (CVE-2004-2687), privilege escalation via udev netlink (CVE-2009-1185), and vsftpd 2.3.4 backdoor analysis (CVE-2011-2523), with firewall mitigation validated end-to-end.PoC · poc_in_github
germarr93/CyberSecurity-Pentest-LabCVE-2004-2687 (Distcc 3.2.1) exploitation, methodology & remediation — Metasploitable2 lab PoC · poc_in_github
h3x0v3rl0rd/distccd_rce_CVE-2004-2687h3x0v3rl0rd/distccd_rce_CVE-2004-2687PoC · poc_in_github
k4miyo/CVE-2004-2687CVE-2004-2687 DistCC Daemon Command ExecutionPoC · poc_in_github

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
apple xcode= 1.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apple:xcode:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
samba samba≤ 2.18.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2004-12-31modified 2026-06-16

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references (12)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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