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CVE-2014-5351: Kerberos 5 kadmind Sends Old Keys, Allows Ticket Forgery
CVE-2014-5351 · published 12 years ago
Summary
A security issue exists in older versions of Kerberos 5 kadmind. This affects organizations using kadmind for authentication. To protect against potential exploitation, update to a version of Kerberos 5 kadmind that is 1.13 or later.
What to do
- Update debian krb5 to version 1.12.1+dfsg-10.
Affected software
| Ecosystem | Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:11 | debian | krb5 |
< 1.12.1+dfsg-10 Fix: upgrade to 1.12.1+dfsg-10
|
| Debian:12 | debian | krb5 |
< 1.12.1+dfsg-10 Fix: upgrade to 1.12.1+dfsg-10
|
| Debian:13 | debian | krb5 |
< 1.12.1+dfsg-10 Fix: upgrade to 1.12.1+dfsg-10
|
| Debian:14 | debian | krb5 |
< 1.12.1+dfsg-10 Fix: upgrade to 1.12.1+dfsg-10
|
| – | mit | kerberos_5 |
1.12.2 cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Original advisory text
The kadm5_randkey_principal_3 function in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13 sends old keys in a response to a -randkey -keepold request, which allows...
The kadm5_randkey_principal_3 function in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13 sends old keys in a response to a -randkey -keepold request, which allows remote authenticated users to forge tickets by leveraging administrative access.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5351 Vendor Advisory
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0477.html
- http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8018
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140132.ht...
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151103.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00044.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-53.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:224
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70380
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031003
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2498-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1145425
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97028
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/af0ed4df4dfae762ab5fb605f5a0c8f59cb4f6ca
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00040.html
Severity
2.1
Low
Type
CWE-255Credentials Management Errors
Timeline
Published10 Oct 2014
Updated29 Oct 2026
First seen8 Aug 2026
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