CVE-2014-9422

CVE Details

Release Date:

2015-02-03

Description

It was found that the MIT Kerberos administration server (kadmind) incorrectly accepted certain authentication requests for two-component server principal names. A remote attacker able to acquire a key with a particularly named principal (such as kad/x) could use this flaw to impersonate any user to kadmind, and perform administrative actions as that user.

See more information about CVE-2014-9422 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.6	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	Requires single instance	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (krb5)	ELSA-2015-0794	2015-04-09
Oracle Linux version 7 (krb5)	ELSA-2015-0439	2015-03-11
Oracle VM version 3.3 (krb5)	OVMSA-2015-0054	2015-04-09

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