CVE-2014-5351
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
2.1
Description
The kadm5_randkey_principal_3 function in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13 sends old keys in a response to a -randkey -keepold request, which allows remote authenticated users to forge tickets by leveraging administrative access.
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 | 1.12.1+dfsg-10 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.12.1+dfsg-10 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.12.1+dfsg-10 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.12.1+dfsg-10 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.12.1+dfsg-10 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mit | kerberos_5 | 1.12.2 | |
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0477.html
- http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8018
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140132.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151103.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00044.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-53.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:224
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70380
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031003
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2498-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1145425
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97028
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/af0ed4df4dfae762ab5fb605f5a0c8f59cb4f6ca
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00040.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5351
CWEs
CWE-255
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.