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CVE-2004-2687

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 88.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-16

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.

Affected products

• Apple Xcode: 1.5
• Samba: through 2.18.3

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
• 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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