CVE-2015-2694

Public on 2015-05-25
Modified on 2015-12-13
Description
A flaw was found in the OTP kdcpreauth module of MIT Kerberos. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass the requires_preauth flag on a client principal and obtain a ciphertext encrypted in the principal's long-term key. This ciphertext could be used to conduct an off-line dictionary attack against the user's password.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 krb5 2015-12-14 ALAS-2015-624 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N