Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2020-28196 |
CWE-ID | CWE-674 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
Kerberos 5 Client/Desktop applications / Software for system administration |
Vendor | MIT |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerabilities.
Updated 18.11.2020
Added fixed version.
EUVDB-ID: #VU48444
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-28196
CWE-ID:
CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) implementation when processing ASN.1-encoded Kerberos messages in lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application that uses Kerberos and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Install update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsKerberos 5: 1.17 - 1.18.2
External linkshttp://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/57415dda6cf04e73ffc3723be518eddfae599bfd
http://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00011.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/73IGOG6CZAVMVNS4GGRMOLOZ7B6QVA7F/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KPH2V3WSQTELROZK3GFCPQDOFLKIZ6H5/
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202011-17
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.