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CVE-2023-36054

krb5: Denial of service through freeing uninitialized pointer

Severity Score

6.5
*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

Track
*SSVC
Descriptions

lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.20.2 and 1.21.x before 1.21.1 frees an uninitialized pointer. A remote authenticated user can trigger a kadmind crash. This occurs because _xdr_kadm5_principal_ent_rec does not validate the relationship between n_key_data and the key_data array count.

A vulnerability was found in the _xdr_kadm5_principal_ent_rec() function in lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5). This issue occurs due to lack of validation in the relationship between n_key_data and the key_data array count, leading to the freeing of uninitialized pointers. This may allow a remote authenticated attacker to send a specially crafted request that causes the kadmind process to crash, resulting in a denial of service (DoS).

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:Track
Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Tech. Impact
Partial
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2023-06-21 CVE Reserved
  • 2023-08-07 CVE Published
  • 2024-08-13 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-10-11 CVE Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
  • CWE-824: Access of Uninitialized Pointer
CAPEC
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Mit
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Kerberos 5
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< 1.20.2
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Mit
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Kerberos 5
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1.21
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Mit
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Kerberos 5
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1.21
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beta1
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Debian
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Debian Linux
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10.0
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Netapp
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Active Iq Unified Manager
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Netapp
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Clustered Data Ontap
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9.0
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Netapp
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Hci
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Netapp
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Management Services For Element Software
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Netapp
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Ontap Tools
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-vmware_vsphere
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