CVE-2017-7562

2018-07-2615:00:00

CWE-287

CWE-295

redhat

www.cve.org

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

58.8%

JSON

An authentication bypass flaw was found in the way krb5’s certauth interface before 1.16.1 handled the validation of client certificates. A remote attacker able to communicate with the KDC could potentially use this flaw to impersonate arbitrary principals under rare and erroneous circumstances.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "krb5",
    "vendor": "MIT",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "1.16.1"
      }
    ]
  }
]