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CVE-2014-9421: mit kerberos_5

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2014-9421DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9421
Published 19-02-2015Last modified 06-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-9421 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.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 9, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
9.0/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
6.21%
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 9 · Related 4
DLA-146-1DSA-3153-1MGASA-2015-0066OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10004-1RHSA-2015:0439RHSA-2015:0794

Timeline

  1. 19-02-2015
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The auth_gssapi_unwrap_data function in lib/rpc/auth_gssapi_misc.c 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 handle partial XDR deserialization, 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 malformed XDR data, as demonstrated by data sent to kadmind.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS 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

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.

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

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