CVE-2019-14844 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Fedora versions of krb5 (1.16.1 to 1.17.x) that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) by sending specific RFC 4556 "enctypes." This vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 score of 7.5 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high availability impact, but no confidentiality or integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.16.1, <= 1.17.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
29CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
31CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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krb5: reversed strlcpy() allows client to crash the KDC
Sep 26, 2019A flaw was found in Fedora versions of krb5 from 1.16.1 to including 1.17.x in the way a Kerberos client could crash the KDC by sending one of the RFC 4556 "enctypes". A remote unauthenticated user could use this flaw to crash the KDC.
Sep 10, 2019