FKIE_CVE-2020-13110

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-05-16 12:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:52
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The kerberos package before 1.0.0 for Node.js allows arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation via injection of malicious DLLs through use of the kerberos_sspi LoadLibrary() method, because of a DLL path search.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://medium.com/%40kiddo_Ha3ker/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-cb4b32031cd
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/op-innovate_dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-activity-6667043749547253760-kVlWThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1514Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.op-c.net/2020/05/15/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package/Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://medium.com/%40kiddo_Ha3ker/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-cb4b32031cd
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.linkedin.com/posts/op-innovate_dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-activity-6667043749547253760-kVlWThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1514Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.op-c.net/2020/05/15/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package/Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
kerberos_project kerberos *
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