CVE-2014-9423

Home/CVE/The svcauth_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/rpc/svc_auth_gss.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.11.x through 1.11.5

CVE

The svcauth_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/rpc/svc_auth_gss.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.11.x through 1.11.5

The svcauth_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/rpc/svc_auth_gss.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.11.x through 1.11.5, 1.12.x through 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.1 transmits uninitialized interposer data to clients, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process heap memory by sniffing the network for data in a handle field.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.01537

Monitor

No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence

Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

⬡

Weakness Classification

CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

▤

Affected Products & Versions

mit kerberos 5all versions

▣

Scoring & Timeline

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

View on NVD

This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Published to NVD19 Feb 2015 · 11:59 AM

⚑

Vendor Advisories

suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10004-1
usnUSN-2498-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:0257-1
rhsaRHSA-2015:0439Moderate
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:0290-1
Show all 6 vendor advisoriessuse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:0290-2

🔗

References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151103.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151437.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00011.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00016.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00044.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html

Show all 13 references

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2015-001-patch-r113.txt

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2015-001.txtVendor Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3153

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:069

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72503

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2498-1

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/5bb8a6b9c9eb8dd22bc9526751610aaa255ead9c

Intelligence Graph · click any node to traverse

CVETechnique ActorTool Family

drag to reposition · click any node to traverse · button top-right enlarges

External lookups - second-class, for what we don’t hold ourselves

NVD CVE.org CISA Vulners Exploit-DB GitHub PoC VulnCheck KEV GreyNoise

Vulnerabilities
CISA KEV catalog
CWE weaknesses
CAPEC attack patterns
Package vulnerabilities

Threat intelligence
Threat actors
Tools & malware
ATT&CK techniques
IOCs

Detection & defense
Sigma rules
YARA rules
Atomic Red Team tests
D3FEND countermeasures

Compliance
NIST 800-53
ISO 27001:2022
SOC 2 TSC
PCI-DSS v4.0
CIS Controls v8.1

About
All capabilities
Live statistics
Data sources
Privacy policy
Terms of service

threatengine.sh · Open-source threat intelligence platform · 100+ authoritative sources · Every fact traces to its origin