7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2020-28196

Published: 06/11/2020 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) prior to 1.17.2 and 1.18.x prior to 1.18.3 allows unbounded recursion via an ASN.1-encoded Kerberos message because the lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c support for BER indefinite lengths lacks a recursion limit.

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Debian Bug report logs - #973880 krb5: CVE-2020-28196 Package: src:krb5; Maintainer for src:krb5 is Sam Hartman <hartmans@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 13:09:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: security, upstream Found in versions krb5/117-3, krb5/117-10 Fix ...
Demi Obeneour discovered that unbounded recursion in the ASN1 parser of libkrb5 could result in denial of service For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 117-3+deb10u1 We recommend that you upgrade your krb5 packages For the detailed security status of krb5 please refer to its security tracker page at: https ...
A flaw was found in krb5 MIT Kerberos 5 allows unbounded recursion via an ASN1-encoded Kerberos message because the lib/krb5/asn1/asn1_encodec support for BER indefinite lengths lacks a recursion limit (CVE-2020-28196) ...