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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-26 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:58
VLAI
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2316 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2018-12-08 00:00
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