CVE-2018-20217 (GCVE-0-2018-20217)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-26 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:58
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Summary
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.
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