Critical severity · published Mar 19, 2008
CVE-2008-0062
KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5kdc) does not set a global variable for some krb4 message types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute…
9.8
CVSS
10.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5kdc) does not set a global variable for some krb4 message types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted messages that trigger a NULL pointer dereference or double-free.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)10.1% · higher than 96% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
3.1; 4.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
7; 8 · source: NVD
K5
Kerberos 5 · Mit
through 1.6.3 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
6.06; 6.10; 7.04; 7.10 · source: NVD