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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2010-4020

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.8.x through 1.8.3 does not reject RC4 key-derivation checksums, which might allow remote authenticated users to forge a (1) AD-SIGNEDPATH or (2) AD-KDC-ISSUED signature, and possibly gain privileges, by leveraging the small…

MEDIUM 6.3EPSS 1.92%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.92%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.8.x through 1.8.3 does not reject RC4 key-derivation checksums, which might allow remote authenticated users to forge a (1) AD-SIGNEDPATH or (2) AD-KDC-ISSUED signature, and possibly gain privileges, by leveraging the small key space that results from certain one-byte stream-cipher operations.

CVSS 3.0
6.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS
1.92% probability · 79th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-310
Affected
mit/kerberos 5
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.