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CVE-2017-7562 Detail

Current Description

An authentication bypass flaw was found in the way krb5's certauth interface before 1.16.1 handled the validation of client certificates. A remote attacker able to communicate with the KDC could potentially use this flaw to impersonate arbitrary principals under rare and erroneous circumstances.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  07/26/2018
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Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.5 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N (V3 legend)
Impact Score: 3.6
Exploitability Score: 2.8

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.0 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.0

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): None
Additional Information:
Allows unauthorized modification

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Hyperlink Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100511 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0666 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7562 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694/commits/1de6ca2f2eb1fdbab51f1549a25a6903aefcc196 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694/commits/50fe4074f188c2d4da0c421e96553acea8378db2 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694/commits/b7af544e50a4d8291524f590e20dd44430bf627d Third Party Advisory

Technical Details

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2017-7562
NVD Published Date:
07/26/2018
NVD Last Modified:
09/21/2018