CVE-2010-4020

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-12-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.8.x through 1.8.3 does not reject RC4 key-derivation checksums, which might allow remote authenticated users to forge a (1) AD-SIGNEDPATH or (2) AD-KDC-ISSUED signature, and possibly gain privileges, by leveraging the small key space that results from certain one-byte stream-cipher operations.

Affected products

MIT Kerberos 5: 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3

References

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1035108
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051976.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051999.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00006.html
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2011/000133.html
http://osvdb.org/69608
http://secunia.com/advisories/42399
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4581
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2010-007.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:246

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