CVE-2010-4021
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
2.1
Description
The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 does not properly restrict the use of TGT credentials for armoring TGS requests, which might allow remote authenticated users to impersonate a client by rewriting an inner request, aka a "KrbFastReq forgery issue."
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mit | kerberos_5 | 1.7 | |
References
- http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1035108
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00006.html
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2011/000133.html
- http://osvdb.org/69607
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4581
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2010-007.txt
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:246
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514953/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517739/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45122
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024803
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1030-1
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0007.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3094
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3118
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4021
CWEs
CWE-16 CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.