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CVE-2017-11103

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-11103 describes a critical vulnerability in Heimdal Kerberos, affecting products like Apple, Debian, FreeBSD, and Samba. This flaw, dubbed "Orpheus' Lyre," allows remote attackers to impersonate services by exploiting a deviation from the Kerberos 5 protocol specification in how service-principal names are obtained. With a CVSS score of 8.1 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a network attack vector and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, despite a high attack complexity. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating its importance.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 7.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:heimdal_project:heimdal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.0.0, < 4.4.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.5.0, < 4.5.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.6.0, < 4.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.1HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0512 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-11103Important

krb5: Metadata taken from the unauthenticated plaintext

Jul 11, 2017

References

github.com / heimdal/heimdal/releases/tag/heimdal-7.4.0
Release Notes
support.apple.com / HT208112
Third Party Advisory
support.apple.com / HT208144
Third Party Advisory
support.apple.com / HT208221
Third Party Advisory
freebsd.org / security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-17:05.heimdal.asc
Third Party Advisory
orpheus-lyre.info
Third Party Advisory
samba.org / samba/security/CVE-2017-11103.html
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3912
Third Party Advisory
h5l.org / advisories.html
Broken Link
securityfocus.com / bid/99551
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1038876
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039427
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry