CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-3206
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-08-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
The checkPassword function in python-kerberos does not authenticate the KDC it attempts to communicate with, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bad response), or have other unspecified impact by performing a man-in-the-middle attack.
Affected configurations
• apple pykerberos
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/21/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74760 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223802 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/apple/ccs-pykerberos/issues/31 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://pypi.python.org/pypi/kerberos Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/21/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74760 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223802 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/apple/ccs-pykerberos/issues/31 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://pypi.python.org/pypi/kerberos Patch, Vendor Advisory