CVE-2010-4021

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2010-11-30
IAVA:
2011-A-0066
Bugzilla:
648736: CVE-2010-4021 krb5: KDC may issue unrequested tickets due to KrbFastReq forgery (MITKRB5-SA-2010-007)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 does not properly restrict the use of TGT credentials for armoring TGS requests, which might allow remote authenticated users to impersonate a client by rewriting an inner request, aka a "KrbFastReq forgery issue."

Find out more about CVE-2010-4021 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of krb5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.1
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the MIT Kerberos Team for reporting this issue.

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