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CVE-2013-1415 json

The pkinit_check_kdc_pkid function in plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in the PKINIT implementation in the Key Distribution C…

published 13y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-1453

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.7%
EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The pkinit_check_kdc_pkid function in plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in the PKINIT implementation in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.10.4 and 1.11.x before 1.11.1 does not properly handle errors during extraction of fields from an X.509 certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed KRB5_PADATA_PK_AS_REQ AS-REQ request.

Patch / fix

  • mit kerberos_5 1.10.4
  • krb5 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.10.1+dfsg-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1415

  • krb5 RHEL 6 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1
  • krb5-libs RHEL 6 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1
  • krb5-server RHEL 6 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1
  • krb5-server-ldap RHEL 6 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1
  • krb5-workstation RHEL 6 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1
  • krb5-pkinit-openssl RHEL 6 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:0656

  • krb5 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.15-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10004-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2013-1415 updated cvss 4.3

krb5: PKINIT null pointer deref leads to DoS (pkinit_check_kdc_pkid())

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) krb5 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-libs 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-workstation 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-pkinit-openssl 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) krb5 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-server 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-server-ldap 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) krb5 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-libs 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-workstation 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-pkinit-openssl 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) krb5 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-server 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-server-ldap 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) krb5 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-libs 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-server 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-server-ldap 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-workstation 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-pkinit-openssl 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) krb5 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-libs 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-server 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-server-ldap 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-workstation 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1, krb5-pkinit-openssl 1.10.3-10.el6_4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:0656
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 krb5
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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