CVE-2025-59088
This creates a server-side request forgery vulnerability, since an attacker could send a request for a realm matching a DNS zone where they created SRV records pointing to arbitrary ports and hostnames (which may resolve to loopback or internal IP…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.46%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
If kdcproxy receives a request for a realm which does not have server addresses defined in its configuration, by default, it will query SRV records in the DNS zone matching the requested realm name. This creates a server-side request forgery vulnerability, since an attacker could send a request for a realm matching a DNS zone where they created SRV records pointing to arbitrary ports and hostnames (which may resolve to loopback or internal IP addresses). This vulnerability can be exploited to probe internal network topology and firewall rules, perform port scanning, and exfiltrate data. Deployments where the "use_dns" setting is explicitly set to false are not affected.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.6 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.46% probability · 39th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-918
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21138
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21139
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21140
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21141
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21142
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21448
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21748
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21806
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21818
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21819
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21820
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21821
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22982
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59088
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2393955
- https://github.com/latchset/kdcproxy/pull/68
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.