SB2014101002 - Credentials management in web.mit.edu krb5
Published: October 10, 2014 Updated: July 28, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2014101002
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Credentials management (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-5351)
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to gain access to sensitive information.
The kadm5_randkey_principal_3 function in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13 sends old keys in a response to a -randkey -keepold request, which allows remote authenticated users to forge tickets by leveraging administrative access.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0477.html
- http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8018
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140132.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151103.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00044.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-53.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:224
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70380
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031003
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2498-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1145425
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97028
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/af0ed4df4dfae762ab5fb605f5a0c8f59cb4f6ca
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00040.html