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CVE-2000-0546

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0546 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Kerberos 4 Key Distribution Center (KDC) program, specifically within the set_tgtkey function, affecting products like Cygnus Network Security Project, KerbNet Project, and MIT Kerberos. This vulnerability allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service by manipulating the 'lastrealm' variable. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0 (MEDIUM), it has a low attack complexity and only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cygnus_network_security_project:cygnus_network_security:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kerbnet_project:kerbnet:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos:4.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos:4.0:patch10:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0289 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2000-0546

security flaw

Jun 9, 2000

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0064.html
Broken Link
ciac.llnl.gov / ciac/bulletins/k-051.shtml
Broken Link
web.mit.edu / kerberos/www/advisories/krb4kdc.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
cert.org / advisories/CA-2000-11.html
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/1338
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry