Overview
MIT Kerberos V5 contains a flaw that allows the controller of one Kerberos realm to impersonate users in a second realm.
Description
MIT Kerberos V5 releases prior to 1.2.3 contain a vulnerability that allows users from one realm to impersonate users from other non-local realms that use the same (shared) keys. This vulnerability is the result of a flaw in the chk_trans.c file of the libkrb5 library and affects both the Key Distribution Center (KDC) and other Kerberos application servers. |
Impact
This vulnerability may allow users to gain unauthorized access to other realms, with various impacts possible depending on the Kerberos access control list (ACL) for each realm. |
Solution
Update your Kerberos installation This vulnerability was addressed in MIT Kerberos V5 1.2.3. MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2003-001 provides additional information from MIT and is available at: |
Follow the suggestions in MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2003-001
Remove all non-local principals from all critical ACLs in services using old MIT Kerberos code to validate the realm transit path |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
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References
Acknowledgements
The CERT/CC thanks Joseph Sokol-Margolis and Gerald Britton for discovering this vulnerability and Ken Raeburn of MIT for bringing it to our attention.
This document was written by Shawn Van Ittersum and Jeffrey P. Lanza.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2003-0059 |
| Severity Metric: | 14.47 |
| Date Public: | 2003-01-28 |
| Date First Published: | 2003-01-31 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2003-04-04 20:05 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 39 |