CVE-2018-20217

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.3
Exploit probability—
ProductMit Kerberos
PublishedDec 26, 2018
First seenDec 26, 2018

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mit kerberosv < 5-1.175-1.17
debian debian_linux8.0, 9.0—

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CVE-2018-20217 · Mit Kerberos · Dark Radar