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CVE-2003-0072: mit kerberos

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2003-0072
Published 26-03-2003Last modified 08-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2003-0072 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in mit kerberos. EPSS estimates a 1.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.95%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
DSA-266

Timeline

  1. 26-03-2003
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 08-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.7 and earlier allows remote, authenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) on KDCs within the same realm using a certain protocol request that causes an out-of-bounds read of an array (aka "array overrun").

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.95%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

80%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.95% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
1.95%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Mit2 products
  • kerberos1.0 | 1.2.2.beta1
  • kerberos_51.0.6 | 1.1 | 1.1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.2 | 1.2.3 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.6 | 1.2.7 | 1.3:alpha1
Debian1 product
  • krb5< 1.2.7-3

2 vendors · 3 products

References

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