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.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | krb5 | 2015-05-05 15:44 | ALAS-2015-518 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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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 |