CVE-2009-3295 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the MIT Kerberos 5 Key Distribution Center (KDC) versions prior to 1.7.1. A remote attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and crash the KDC daemon by sending a specially crafted ticket request related to cross-realm referrals. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, but only impacting availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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