CVE-2018-16860
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · CWE-358
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
A flaw was found in samba's Heimdal KDC implementation, versions 4.8.x up to, excluding 4.8.12, 4.9.x up to, excluding 4.9.8 and 4.10.x up to, excluding 4.10.3, when used in AD DC mode. A man in the middle attacker could use this flaw to intercept the request to the KDC and replace the user name (principal) in the request with any desired user name (principal) that exists in the KDC effectively obtaining a ticket for that principal.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00026.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Aug/11
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Aug/13
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Aug/14
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Aug/15
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16860Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/21
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/22