vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-7562: Security patch for krb5 (ALAS-2018-1010)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Apr 10, 2018 | Sep 7, 2018 | Mar 2, 2020 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 10, 2018
Added
Sep 7, 2018
Modified
Mar 2, 2020
Description
An authentication bypass flaw was found in the way krb5's certauth interface before 1.16.1 handled the validation of client certificates. A remote attacker able to communicate with the KDC could potentially use this flaw to impersonate arbitrary principals under rare and erroneous circumstances.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-krb5
References
Rapid7 Labs
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