CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-13110
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-05-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- 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 configurations
• kerberos project kerberos (< 1.0.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness
References
- https://medium.com/%40kiddo_Ha3ker/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-cb4b32031cd medium.com
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/op-innovate_dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-activity-6667043749547253760-kVlW Third Party Advisory
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1514 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.op-c.net/2020/05/15/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package/ Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://medium.com/%40kiddo_Ha3ker/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-cb4b32031cd medium.com
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/op-innovate_dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-activity-6667043749547253760-kVlW Third Party Advisory
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1514 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.op-c.net/2020/05/15/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package/ Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory