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CVE-2017-6594

HIGH
7.5CVSS
Published: 2017-08-28
Updated: 2025-04-20
AI Analysis

Description

The transit path validation code in Heimdal before 7.3 might allow attackers to bypass the capath policy protection mechanism by leveraging failure to add the previous hop realm to the transit path of issued tickets.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
none
Integrity
high
Availability
none
Weaknesses
CWE-295

Metadata

Primary Vendor
HEIMDAL_PROJECT
Published
8/28/2017
Last Modified
4/20/2025
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

heimdal_project : heimdalopensuse : leapopensuse : leap

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