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CVE-2020-13110

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-05-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-427

Description

The kerberos package before 1.0.0 for Node.js allows arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation via injection of malicious DLLs through use of the kerberos_sspi LoadLibrary() method, because of a DLL path search.

Affected products

• Kerberos Project Kerberos: before 1.0.0 — fixed in 1.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kerberos Project Kerberos 1.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://medium.com/%40kiddo_Ha3ker/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-cb4b32031cd
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/op-innovate_dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-activity-6667043749547253760-kVlW
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1514
• https://www.op-c.net/2020/05/15/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package/
• https://medium.com/%40kiddo_Ha3ker/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-cb4b32031cd
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/op-innovate_dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-activity-6667043749547253760-kVlW
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1514
• https://www.op-c.net/2020/05/15/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package/

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