3.5

CVE-2014-5354: mit kerberos

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2014-5354DEBIAN-CVE-2014-5354
Published 16-12-2014Last modified 06-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-5354 is a low (CVSS 3.5) vulnerability in mit kerberos. EPSS estimates a 1.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 3.5, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
3.5/10
010
Low · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.74%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 4
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10004-1SUSE-SU-2015:1276-1SUSE-SU-2015:1282-1USN-2498-1

Timeline

  1. 16-12-2014
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.1, when the KDC uses LDAP, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by creating a database entry for a keyless principal, as demonstrated by a kadmin "add_principal -nokey" or "purgekeys -all" command.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.74%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

78%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 1.74% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Mit2 products
Debian1 product
  • krb5< 1.12.1+dfsg-16
Ubuntu1 product
  • krb5< 1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.1

3 vendors · 4 products

References

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