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CVE-2011-0281: mit kerberos Cryptographic Issues

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2011-0281
Published 10-02-2011Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2011-0281 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in mit kerberos. EPSS estimates a 4.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90.8% 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
4.20%
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 3 · Related 1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10004-1RHSA-2011:0199RHSA-2011:0200

Timeline

  1. 10-02-2011
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The unparse implementation in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.x through 1.9, when an LDAP backend is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor exhaustion and daemon hang) via a principal name that triggers use of a backslash escape sequence, as demonstrated by a \n sequence.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

4.20%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

91%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 4.20% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
4.20%

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
  • kerberos5-1.6.3
  • kerberos_51.6 | 1.6.1 | 1.6.2 | 1.7 | 1.7.1 | 1.8 | 1.8.1 | 1.8.2 | 1.8.3 | 1.9
Debian1 product
  • krb5< 1.8.3+dfsg-5

2 vendors · 3 products

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