8.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.2 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
76.3%
MIT Kerberos5 is prone to an integer overflow vulnerability in
PAC parsing.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:mit:kerberos";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.149052");
script_version("2023-10-13T05:06:10+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-10-13 05:06:10 +0000 (Fri, 13 Oct 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-01-03 02:28:45 +0000 (Tue, 03 Jan 2023)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-01-05 20:28:00 +0000 (Thu, 05 Jan 2023)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2022-42898");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("MIT Kerberos5 < 1.19.4, 1.20.x < 1.20.1 Integer Overflow Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_kerberos5_ssh_login_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("mit/kerberos5/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"MIT Kerberos5 is prone to an integer overflow vulnerability in
PAC parsing.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"The script checks if a vulnerable version is present on the
target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"PAC parsing has integer overflows that may lead to remote code
execution (in KDC, kadmind, or a GSS or Kerberos application server) on 32-bit platforms (which
have a resultant heap-based buffer overflow), and cause a denial of service on other platforms.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"MIT Kerberos5 version 1.19.3 and prior and version 1.20.0.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 1.19.4, 1.20.1 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.19/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.20/");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "1.19.4")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "1.19.4", install_path: location);
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
8.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.2 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.005 Low
EPSS
Percentile
76.3%