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CVE-2004-0644: mit kerberos_5

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2004-0644
Published 10-09-2004Last modified 08-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2004-0644 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in mit kerberos_5. EPSS estimates a 5.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
21/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
5.58%
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 2
DSA-543-1RHSA-2004:350

Timeline

  1. 10-09-2004
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 08-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The asn1buf_skiptail function in the ASN.1 decoder library for MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.2 through 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain BER encoding.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

5.58%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

93%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 5.58% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
5.58%

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

Debian1 product
  • krb5< 1.3.4-3
Mit1 product
  • kerberos_51.2.2 | 1.2.3 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.6 | 1.2.7 | 1.2.8 | 1.3 | 1.3:alpha1 | 1.3.1 | 1.3.2 | 1.3.3 | 1.3.4

2 vendors · 2 products

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