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CVE-2022-42898

HIGH
8.8CVSS
Published: 2022-12-25
Updated: 2025-04-14
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Description

PAC parsing in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.19.4 and 1.20.x before 1.20.1 has integer overflows that may lead to remote code execution (in KDC, kadmind, or a GSS or Kerberos application server) on 32-bit platforms (which have a resultant heap-based buffer overflow), and cause a denial of service on other platforms. This occurs in krb5_pac_parse in lib/krb5/krb/pac.c. Heimdal before 7.7.1 has "a similar bug."

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
low
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
high
Integrity
high
Availability
high
Weaknesses
CWE-190CWE-190

Metadata

Primary Vendor
MIT
Published
12/25/2022
Last Modified
4/14/2025
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5heimdal_project : heimdalsamba : sambasamba : sambasamba : samba

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