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Fencer Intel
critical 9.8

CVE-2014-8650 json

Improper Authentication in requests-kerberos

published 2019-12-15 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-wh37-37xw-54hr , PYSEC-2019-200 , EUVD-2019-0123

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.6%
EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

python-requests-Kerberos through 0.5 does not handle mutual authentication

Patch / fix

  • pypi requests-kerberos 0.6
  • python-requests-kerberos Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.5-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8650

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-8650 updated cvss 1.4

python-requests-kerberos: improper handling of mutual authentication

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    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

3.65% 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 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi requests-kerberos
<0.6
0.6

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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