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CVE-2013-1418

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1418 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) of MIT Kerberos 5 versions prior to 1.10.7, affecting various distributions including Debian and openSUSE. This flaw, a NULL pointer dereference, can be triggered by remote attackers sending a crafted request when multiple realms are configured, leading to a daemon crash. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is considered a medium-severity vulnerability, requiring medium attack complexity but not authentication, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.10.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0551 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: krb5-0:1.6.1-78.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: krb5-0:1.10.3-33.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-1418Moderate

krb5: multi-realm KDC null dereference leads to crash

Nov 4, 2013

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2013-0335.html
Third Party Advisory
krbdev.mit.edu / rt/Ticket/Display.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00082.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00086.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00026.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / krb5/krb5/commit/c2ccf4197f697c4ff143b8a786acdd875e70a89d
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00040.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
web.mit.edu / kerberos/krb5-1.10/README-1.10.7.txt
Vendor Advisory
web.mit.edu / kerberos/krb5-1.11/README-1.11.4.txt
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/63555
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry