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CVE-2010-0628

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0628 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting MIT Kerberos 5 versions 1.7 before 1.7.2 and 1.8 before 1.8.1. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw by sending a malformed packet to the SPNEGO GSS-API functionality, leading to an assertion failure and daemon crash. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0333 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0628Important

krb5: Assertion failure in GSSAPI SPNEGO mechanism (MITKRB5-SA-2010-002)

Mar 23, 2010

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/39023
web.mit.edu / kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2010-002.txt
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/839413
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / archive/1/510281/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/38904
Patch
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-916-1