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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287CWE-295CWE-287
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- REDHAT
- Published
- 7/26/2018
- Last Modified
- 11/21/2024
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
redhat : enterprise_linuxredhat : enterprise_linux_desktopredhat : enterprise_linux_serverredhat : enterprise_linux_workstationmit : kerberos_5
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