VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2015-8630

HIGH 7.5EPSS 4.29%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.29%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

The (1) kadm5_create_principal_3 and (2) kadm5_modify_principal functions in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by specifying KADM5_POLICY with a NULL policy name.

CVSS 3.0: 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS: 4.29% probability · 91th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Affected: mit/kerberos 5
Source: cve@mitre.org

References

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