CVE-2010-0629 describes a use-after-free vulnerability in the kadmind component of MIT Kerberos 5 versions 1.5 through 1.6.3, affecting distributions like Canonical, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and SUSE. This flaw allows remote authenticated users to trigger a denial of service by sending an invalid API version number from a kadmin client, causing the daemon to crash. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), it can be exploited over the network with low attack complexity and requires low privileges, leading to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.5, <= 1.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise:11.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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