CVE-2021-20277

mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.043 · 91 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

4.33% (91st) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

31 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A flaw was found in Samba's libldb. Multiple, consecutive leading spaces in an LDAP attribute can lead to an out-of-bounds memory write, leading to a crash of the LDAP server process handling the request. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

cvss

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

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-787USprimaryCWE-125US

affected products (31)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Amazon Linux 2all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:amazon:linux_2:-
Avaya Aura Application Enablement Servicesall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:avaya:aura_application_enablement_services:-
Avaya Aura Communication Managerall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:avaya:communication_manager:-
Avaya Aura Session Managerall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:avaya:session_manager:-
Avaya Aura System Managerall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:avaya:aura_system_manager:-
Avaya CMSall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:avaya:call_management_system_server:-
Avaya Web License Managerall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:avaya:web_license_manager:-
Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Dell Secure Connect Gateway <5.36.00.16all versionscert_bundDE
Juniper JUNOSall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:juniper:junos:-
Open Source CentOSall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:centos:centos:-
Open Source Samba <4.12.14all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source Samba <4.13.7all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source Samba <4.14.2all versionscert_bundDE
Oracle Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:oracle:linux:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
Dell Secure Connect Gateway< 5.36.00.16cert_bundDE
Open Source Samba< 4.12.14cert_bundDE

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-3128Samba: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of ServiceDeutsch2021-03-24csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer oder authentifizierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Samba ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-05-12modified 2026-06-17

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references (52)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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