CVE-2010-0628: mit kerberos_5
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2010-0628 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in mit kerberos_5. EPSS estimates a 3.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1Timeline
- 25-03-2010PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
The spnego_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in the SPNEGO GSS-API functionality in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 before 1.7.2 and 1.8 before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via an invalid packet that triggers incorrect preparation of an error token.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
3.33%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
89%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 3.33% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Debian1 product
- krb5< 1.8+dfsg-1.1
Mit1 product
- kerberos_51.7 | 1.7.1 | 1.8
2 vendors · 2 products
References
8 links- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566258X Refsource CONFIRM
- web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2010-002.txtX Refsource CONFIRM
