CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-28196

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
4.42%

91th percentile - higher than 91% of all known CVEs

Summary

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.17.2 and 1.18.x before 1.18.3 allows unbounded recursion via an ASN.1-encoded Kerberos message because the lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c support for BER indefinite lengths lacks a recursion limit.

Risk Assessment

This could lead to stack exhaustion and service crash, potentially resulting in denial of service.

Recommendation

Update krb5 to version 1.17.2 or 1.18.3 (or later) that includes a fix for this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.17.2 and 1.18.x before 1.18.3 allows unbounded recursion via an ASN.1-encoded Kerberos message because the lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c support for BER indefinite lengths lacks a recursion limit.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS