Critical severity · published Mar 31, 2020
CVE-2020-10595
pam-krb5 before 4.9 has a buffer overflow that might cause remote code execution in situations involving supplemental prompting by a Kerberos library
9.8
CVSS
4.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
pam-krb5 before 4.9 has a buffer overflow that might cause remote code execution in situations involving supplemental prompting by a Kerberos library. It may overflow a buffer provided by the underlying Kerberos library by a single '\0' byte if an attacker responds to a prompt with an answer of a carefully chosen length. The effect may range from heap corruption to stack corruption depending on the structure of the underlying Kerberos library, with unknown effects but possibly including code execution. This code path is not used for normal authentication, but only when the Kerberos library does supplemental prompting, such as with PKINIT or when using the non-standard no_prompt PAM configuration option.
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)4.8% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
PA
Pam-krb5 · Pam-krb5 Project
before 4.9 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10595
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10595
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/03/31/1
Patch
https://github.com/rra/pam-krb5/commit/e7879e27a37119fad4faf133a9f70bdcdc75d760
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00000.html
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4314-1/
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4648
www.eyrie.org
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/pam-krb5/security/2020-03-30.html
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