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CVE-2014-9422

Public on 2015-02-19
Modified on 2015-05-05
Description

It was found that the MIT Kerberos administration server (kadmind) incorrectly accepted certain authentication requests for two-component server principal names. A remote attacker able to acquire a key with a particularly named principal (such as "kad/x") could use this flaw to impersonate any user to kadmind, and perform administrative actions as that user.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 krb5 2015-05-05 15:44 ALAS-2015-518

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 6.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C