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CVE-2017-7562

Public on 2018-05-10
Modified on 2018-09-06
Description

An authentication bypass flaw was found in the way krb5's certauth interface 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.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 krb5 2018-09-05 19:27 ALAS-2018-1010
Amazon Linux 2 - Core krb5 2018-05-10 17:18 ALAS2-2018-1010

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N