CVE-2003-0058 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in MIT Kerberos V5 Key Distribution Centers (KDCs) prior to version 1.2.5, affecting various MIT and Sun products. Authenticated attackers can crash KDCs within the same realm by sending a specific protocol request that triggers a null dereference. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity. It is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a complete loss of availability (crash) for the KDC. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, suggesting awareness among security researchers. It is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sun:enterprise_authentication_mechanism:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.