What is CVE-2011-2694?

CVE-2011-2694 is a vulnerability in Samba, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2011-07-29.

Is CVE-2011-2694 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Samba

CVE-2011-2694

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the chg_passwd function in web/swat.c in the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba 3.x before 3.5.10 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the username parameter to the passwd program (aka the user field to the Change Password page).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2011-07-29 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 2.6 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.060 (93.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 93.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.060 · newest: 0.060 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Samba
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 8.04, 10.04, 10.10
Debian Linux — versions 5.0, 6.0, 7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2011-2694

References

www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
www.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN63041502/index.html (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2290 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
osvdb.org/74072 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
secunia.com/advisories/45393 (Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/45496 (Third Party Advisory, Not Applicable, third-party-advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/45488 (Third Party Advisory, Not Applicable, third-party-advisory)
samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.5.10.html (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2011-2694?: CVE-2011-2694 is a vulnerability in Samba, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2011-07-29.
Is CVE-2011-2694 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.