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CVE-2014-5353

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-5353 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) versions prior to 1.13.1, specifically when the KDC uses LDAP, and impacts various distributions including Canonical, Debian, Fedora, and Red Hat. An authenticated attacker can trigger a daemon crash by sending a crafted LDAP query that returns no results, such as using an incorrect object type for a password policy. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.5, indicating a medium attack complexity and 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
< 1.13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:6.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.5LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0497 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 1,638 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (4)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: krb5-0:1.10.3-37.el6_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: krb5-0:1.12.2-14.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: krb5

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-5353Moderate

krb5: NULL pointer dereference when using a ticket policy name as a password policy name

Dec 6, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0536.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155828.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00061.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0794.html
Third Party Advisory
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
Issue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / krb5/krb5/commit/d1f707024f1d0af6e54a18885322d70fa15ec4d3
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00040.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/71679
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1031376
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2498-1
Third Party Advisory