Credentials management in Kerberos 5 - CVE-2014-5351
Published: October 10, 2014 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32358
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-5351
CWE-ID: CWE-255
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
Kerberos 5
krb5 (Alpine package)
krb5
SUSE Linux
Fedora
krb5 (Alpine package)
krb5
SUSE Linux
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2014-5351
Install update from vendor's website.
krb5 (Alpine package) - update to 1.12.4-r0
krb5 - update to 1.12.2-9.fc21
krb5 - update to 1.12.2-9.fc21
External 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