MIT krb5

CVE-2017-7562
MEDIUM 6.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 3.18 % · percentile 88 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Modified

Description

An authentication bypass flaw was found in the way krb5's certauth interface before 1.16.1 handled the validation of client certificates. A remote attacker able to communicate with the KDC could potentially use this flaw to impersonate arbitrary principals under rare and erroneous circumstances.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation
  • CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nredhat
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
MIT · krb5affected 1.16.1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD