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CVE-2014-6324

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-6324, known as the "Kerberos Checksum Vulnerability," allows authenticated domain users to escalate privileges to domain administrator on various Microsoft Windows Server and client operating systems. This critical vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 (High) due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It is actively exploited in the wild, with public exploit code available in Metasploit and ExploitDB, and has garnered significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_7:-:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_8:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_8.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2003:-:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:-:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.0HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
87.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 25, 2022
Metasploit: MS14-068 Microsoft Kerberos Checksum Validation Vulnerability · Nov 18, 2014
ExploitDB: EDB-35474 · Dec 5, 2014
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.8745 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 17,808 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
blogs.technet.com / b/srd/archive/2014/11/18/additional-information-about-cve-2014-6324.aspx
Not ApplicableVendor Advisory
marc.info
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-068
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/62556
Broken Link
securityfocus.com / bid/70958
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1031237
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
us-cert.gov / ncas/alerts/TA14-323A
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource