CVE-2014-5352: mit kerberos_5
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2014-5352 is a high (CVSS 9.0) vulnerability in mit kerberos_5. EPSS estimates a 6.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.5% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 9, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 9 · Related 4Timeline
- 19-02-2015PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
The krb5_gss_process_context_token function in lib/gssapi/krb5/process_context_token.c in the libgssapi_krb5 library in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.11.5, 1.12.x through 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.1 does not properly maintain security-context handles, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and double free, and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted GSSAPI traffic, as demonstrated by traffic to kadmind.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
6.21%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
94%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 6.21% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not 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, authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Debian1 product
- krb5< 1.12.1+dfsg-17
Mit1 product
- kerberos_51.1.1 | 1.11.1 | 1.11.2 | 1.11.3 | 1.11.4 | 1.11.5 | 1.12 | 1.12.1 | 1.12.2 | 1.13
Ubuntu1 product
- krb5< 1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.1
3 vendors · 3 products
References
19 links- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151437.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA
- web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2015-001.txtX Refsource CONFIRM
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151103.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA
Show all 19 references
- github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/82dc33da50338ac84c7b4102dc6513d897d0506aX Refsource CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2015-001-patch-r113.txtX Refsource CONFIRM