CVE-2019-12098

En el lado del cliente de Heimdal anterior de la versión 7.6.0, el fallo en la comprobación anónima del intercambio de claves PKINIT PA-PKINIT-KX permite un ataque de tipo man-in-the-middle. Este problema está en krb5_init_creds_step en lib/krb5/init_creds_pw.c.

Isaac Boukris and Andrew Bartlett discovered that Heimdal's KDC was not properly performing checksum algorithm verifications in the S4U2Self extension module. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack and request S4U2Self tickets for any user known by the application. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It was discovered that Heimdal was not properly handling the verification of key exchanges when an anonymous PKINIT was being used. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack and expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.