CVE-2018-20217

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

26/12/2018

Last modified:

07/11/2023

Description

A Reachable Assertion issue was discovered in the KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.17. If an attacker can obtain a krbtgt ticket using an older encryption type (single-DES, triple-DES, or RC4), the attacker can crash the KDC by making an S4U2Self request.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.50 LOW
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

3.50

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos::::::::		5-1.17 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2018-20217

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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