CVE-2014-5351

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-255

Description

The kadm5_randkey_principal_3 function in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13 sends old keys in a response to a -randkey -keepold request, which allows remote authenticated users to forge tickets by leveraging administrative access.

Affected products

MIT Kerberos 5: 1.12.2

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0477.html
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8018
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140132.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151103.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00016.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00044.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-53.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:224
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70380
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031003
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2498-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1145425

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