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CVE-2014-9423

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9423 is a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5 versions 1.11.x through 1.11.5, 1.12.x through 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.1. The flaw in the svcauth_gss_accept_sec_context function allows uninitialized interposer data from process heap memory to be transmitted to clients. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, as it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality 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
1.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.11.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.11.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.11.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0389 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: krb5-0:1.12.2-14.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-9423Moderate

krb5: libgssrpc server applications leak uninitialized bytes (MITKRB5-SA-2015-001)

Feb 3, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151103.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151437.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00011.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00016.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00044.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html
github.com / krb5/krb5/commit/5bb8a6b9c9eb8dd22bc9526751610aaa255ead9c
web.mit.edu / kerberos/advisories/2015-001-patch-r113.txt
web.mit.edu / kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2015-001.txt
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3153
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/72503
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2498-1