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CVE-2015-2696

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2696 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) versions prior to 1.14, affecting products from vendors like Canonical, Debian, and SUSE. An inappropriate context handle in the IAKERB processing allows remote attackers to crash the process via a crafted IAKERB packet during a gss_inquire_context call. With a CVSS score of 7.1 (High), this vulnerability has a network attack vector and medium attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:12:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.1HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0454 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 8,918 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: krb5
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: krb5

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-2696Moderate

krb5: IAKERB context aliasing flaw

Sep 14, 2015

References

krbdev.mit.edu / rt/Ticket/Display.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00006.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00014.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00022.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / krb5/krb5/commit/e04f0283516e80d2f93366e0d479d13c9b5c8c2a
PatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201611-14
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3395
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/90675
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1034084
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2810-1
Third Party Advisory