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CVE-2010-0283: mit kerberos Improper Input Validation

CVSS: 7.8v2.0HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2010-0283
Published 21-02-2010Last modified 07-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2010-0283 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in mit kerberos. EPSS estimates a 2.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
32/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.41%
0%100%
Low · -0.02 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 · Related 1

Timeline

  1. 21-02-2010
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 before 1.7.2, and 1.8 alpha, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via an invalid (1) AS-REQ or (2) TGS-REQ request.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.41%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

84%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.02 pp

From 2.43% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
2.41%

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

Affected systems

Mit2 products
Debian1 product
  • krb5< 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-7

2 vendors · 3 products

References

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