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CVE-2017-11103

Heimdal before 7.4 allows remote attackers to impersonate services with Orpheus' Lyre attacks...

8.1 HighFix available

Heimdal before 7.4 allows remote attackers to impersonate services with Orpheus' Lyre attacks because it obtains service-principal names in a way that violates the Kerberos 5 protocol specification. In _krb5_extract_ticket() the KDC-REP service name must be obtained from the encrypted version stored in 'enc_part' instead of the unencrypted version stored in 'ticket'. Use of the unencrypted version provides an opportunity for successful server impersonation and other attacks. NOTE: this CVE is only for Heimdal and other products that embed Heimdal code; it does not apply to other instances in which this part of the Kerberos 5 protocol specification is violated.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

5.12%Up 4.6 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 8.1

Heimdal before 7.4 allows remote attackers to impersonate services with Orpheus' Lyre attacks because it obtains service-principal names in a way that violates the Kerberos 5 protocol specification. In _krb5_extract_ticket() the KDC-REP service name must be obtained from the encrypted version stored in 'enc_part' instead of the unencrypted version stored in 'ticket'. Use of the unencrypted version provides an opportunity for successful server impersonation and other attacks. NOTE: this CVE is only for Heimdal and other products that embed Heimdal code; it does not apply to other instances in which this part of the Kerberos 5 protocol specification is violated.

Record
CVE-2017-11103
CVSS 3.1
8.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0
6.8 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-345
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

Heimdal before 7.4 allows remote attackers to impersonate services with Orpheus' Lyre attacks because it obtains service-principal names in a way that violates the Kerberos 5 protocol specification. In _krb5_extract_ticket() the KDC-REP service name must be obtained from the encrypted version stored in 'enc_part' instead of the unencrypted version stored in 'ticket'. Use of the unencrypted version provides an opportunity for successful server impersonation and other attacks. NOTE: this CVE is only for Heimdal and other products that embed Heimdal code; it does not apply to other instances in which this part of the Kerberos 5 protocol specification is violated.

Record
CVE-2017-11103
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-2740 No score

Heimdal before 7.4 allows remote attackers to impersonate services with Orpheus' Lyre attacks because it obtains service-principal names in a way that violates the Kerberos 5 protocol specification. In _krb5_extract_ticket() the KDC-REP service name must be obtained from the encrypted version stored in 'enc_part' instead of the unencrypted version stored in 'ticket'. Use of the unencrypted version provides an opportunity for successful server impersonation and other attacks. NOTE: this CVE is only for Heimdal and other products that embed Heimdal code; it does not apply to other instances in which this part of the Kerberos 5 protocol specification is violated.

Record
EUVD-2017-2740
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-7cm4-q9wm-9w5g 8.1

Heimdal before 7.4 allows remote attackers to impersonate services with Orpheus' Lyre attacks...

Heimdal before 7.4 allows remote attackers to impersonate services with Orpheus' Lyre attacks because it obtains service-principal names in a way that violates the Kerberos 5 protocol specification. In _krb5_extract_ticket() the KDC-REP service name must be obtained from the encrypted version stored in 'enc_part' instead of the unencrypted version stored in 'ticket'. Use of the unencrypted version provides an opportunity for successful server impersonation and other attacks. NOTE: this CVE is only for Heimdal and other products that embed Heimdal code; it does not apply to other instances in which this part of the Kerberos 5 protocol specification is violated.

Record
GHSA-7cm4-q9wm-9w5g
CVSS 3.1
8.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-345
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2017-11103 8.1

Heimdal before 7.4 allows remote attackers to impersonate services with Orpheus' Lyre attacks because it obtains service-principal names in a way that violates the Kerberos 5 protocol specification. In _krb5_extract_ticket() the KDC-REP service name must be obtained from the encrypted version stored in 'enc_part' instead of the unencrypted version stored in 'ticket'. Use of the unencrypted version provides an opportunity for successful server impersonation and other attacks. NOTE: this CVE is only for Heimdal and other products that embed Heimdal code; it does not apply to other instances in which this part of the Kerberos 5 protocol specification is violated.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2017-11103
CVSS 3.1
8.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVBELL-CVE-2017-11103 8.1

CVE-2017-11103 does not affect BellSoft software

Record
BELL-CVE-2017-11103
CVSS 3.1
8.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSV 8.1

Heimdal before 7.4 allows remote attackers to impersonate services with Orpheus' Lyre attacks because it obtains service-principal names in a way that violates the Kerberos 5 protocol specification. In _krb5_extract_ticket() the KDC-REP service name must be obtained from the encrypted version stored in 'enc_part' instead of the unencrypted version stored in 'ticket'. Use of the unencrypted version provides an opportunity for successful server impersonation and other attacks. NOTE: this CVE is only for Heimdal and other products that embed Heimdal code; it does not apply to other instances in which this part of the Kerberos 5 protocol specification is violated.

Record
CVE-2017-11103
CVSS 3.1
8.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-11103 8.1

Heimdal before 7.4 allows remote attackers to impersonate services with Orpheus' Lyre attacks because it obtains service-principal names in a way that violates the Kerberos 5 protocol specification. In _krb5_extract_ticket() the KDC-REP service name must be obtained from the encrypted version stored in 'enc_part' instead of the unencrypted version stored in 'ticket'. Use of the unencrypted version provides an opportunity for successful server impersonation and other attacks. NOTE: this CVE is only for Heimdal and other products that embed Heimdal code; it does not apply to other instances in which this part of the Kerberos 5 protocol specification is violated.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11103
CVSS 3.1
8.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-11103 8.1

Heimdal before 7.4 allows remote attackers to impersonate services with Orpheus' Lyre attacks because it obtains service-principal names in a way that violates the Kerberos 5 protocol specification. In _krb5_extract_ticket() the KDC-REP service name must be obtained from the encrypted version stored in 'enc_part' instead of the unencrypted version stored in 'ticket'. Use of the unencrypted version provides an opportunity for successful server impersonation and other attacks. NOTE: this CVE is only for Heimdal and other products that embed Heimdal code; it does not apply to other instances in which this part of the Kerberos 5 protocol specification is violated.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11103
CVSS 3.1
8.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0265 No score

Updated heimdal packages fix security vulnerability

Jeffrey Altman, Viktor Dukhovni, and Nicolas Williams discovered that Heimdal clients incorrectly trusted unauthenticated portions of Kerberos tickets. A remote attacker could use this to impersonate trusted network services or perform other attacks (CVE-2017-11103).

Record
MGASA-2017-0265
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0326 No score

Updated samba packages fix security vulnerability

Jeffrey Altman, Viktor Dukhovni, and Nicolas Williams discovered that Samba clients incorrectly trusted unauthenticated portions of Kerberos tickets. A remote attacker could use this to impersonate trusted network servers or perform other attacks (CVE-2017-11103).

The samba package has been updated to version 4.6.7, fixing this issue and several other bugs.

Record
MGASA-2017-0326
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10946-1 No score

libheimdal-7.7.0-1.11 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the libheimdal-7.7.0-1.11 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10946-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:11365-1 No score

ctdb-4.14.6+git.182.2205d5224e3-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the ctdb-4.14.6+git.182.2205d5224e3-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:11365-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2237-1 No score

Security update for samba and resource-agents

This update provides Samba 4.6.7, which fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2017-11103: Metadata were being taken from the unauthenticated plaintext (the Ticket) rather than the authenticated and encrypted KDC response. (bsc#1048278)
  • Fix cephwrap_chdir(). (bsc#1048790)
  • Fix ctdb logs to /var/log/log.ctdb instead of /var/log/ctdb. (bsc#1048339)
  • Fix inconsistent ctdb socket path. (bsc#1048352)
  • Fix non-admin cephx authentication. (bsc#1048387)
  • CTDB cannot start when there is no persistent database. (bsc#1052577)

The CTDB resource agent was also fixed to not fail when the database is empty.

Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2237-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-3353-1 No score

heimdal vulnerability

Jeffrey Altman, Viktor Dukhovni, and Nicolas Williams discovered that Heimdal clients incorrectly trusted unauthenticated portions of Kerberos tickets. A remote attacker could use this to impersonate trusted network services or perform other attacks.

Record
USN-3353-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-3353-2 No score

samba vulnerability

USN-3353-1 fixed a vulnerability in Heimdal. This update provides the corresponding update for Samba.

Jeffrey Altman, Viktor Dukhovni, and Nicolas Williams discovered that Samba clients incorrectly trusted unauthenticated portions of Kerberos tickets. A remote attacker could use this to impersonate trusted network servers or perform other attacks.

Record
USN-3353-2
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
heimdal
Alpine:v3.10
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.11
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.12
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.13
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.14
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.15
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.16
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.17
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.18
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.19
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
heimdal
Alpine:v3.20
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.21
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.22
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.23
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.24
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.3
before 1.6_rc2-r5
1.6_rc2-r5
heimdal
Alpine:v3.4
before 1.6_rc2-r5
1.6_rc2-r5
heimdal
Alpine:v3.5
before 1.6_rc2-r6
1.6_rc2-r6
heimdal
Alpine:v3.6
before 7.1.0-r1
7.1.0-r1
heimdal
Alpine:v3.7
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.8
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
heimdal
Alpine:v3.9
before 7.4.0-r0
7.4.0-r0
samba
Alpine:v3.3
4.0.0 up to 4.2.14-r4
4.2.14-r4
samba
Alpine:v3.4
4.0.0 up to 4.4.14-r1
4.4.14-r1
samba
Alpine:v3.5
4.0.0 up to 4.5.10-r1
4.5.10-r1
samba
Alpine:v3.6
4.0.0 up to 4.6.4-r1
4.6.4-r1
heimdal
Debian:12
before 7.4.0.dfsg.1-1
7.4.0.dfsg.1-1
heimdal
Debian:13
before 7.4.0.dfsg.1-1
7.4.0.dfsg.1-1
heimdal
Debian:14
before 7.4.0.dfsg.1-1
7.4.0.dfsg.1-1
samba
Debian:12
before 2:4.6.5+dfsg-4
2:4.6.5+dfsg-4
samba
Debian:13
before 2:4.6.5+dfsg-4
2:4.6.5+dfsg-4
samba
Debian:14
before 2:4.6.5+dfsg-4
2:4.6.5+dfsg-4
heimdal
Debian:7
before 1.6~git20120403+dfsg1-2+deb7u1, plus listed versions
1.6~git20120403+dfsg1-2
1.6~git20120403+dfsg1-2+deb7u1
samba
Debian:8
before 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7, plus listed versions
2:4.1.17+dfsg-22:4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u12:4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u22:4.1.17+dfsg-32:4.1.17+dfsg-4
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2:4.1.17+dfsg-52:4.1.20+dfsg-12:4.1.21+dfsg-12:4.1.21+dfsg-22:4.1.22+dfsg-12:4.2.1+dfsg-12:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u12:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u22:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u32:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u12:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u22:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u32:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u42:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u52:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u6
2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u7
samba
Debian:9
before 2:4.5.8+dfsg-2+deb9u1, plus listed versions
2:4.5.8+dfsg-2
2:4.5.8+dfsg-2+deb9u1
heimdal
Debian:8
before 1.6~rc2+dfsg-9+deb8u1, plus listed versions
1.6~rc2+dfsg-9
1.6~rc2+dfsg-9+deb8u1
heimdal
Debian:9
before 7.1.0+dfsg-13+deb9u1, plus listed versions
7.1.0+dfsg-13
7.1.0+dfsg-13+deb9u1
heimdal
Mageia:5
before 1.5.3-6.1.mga5
1.5.3-6.1.mga5
heimdal
Mageia:6
before 7.3.0-1.1.mga6
7.3.0-1.1.mga6
samba
Mageia:6
before 4.6.7-1.mga6
4.6.7-1.mga6
samba
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
before 4.6.7+git.38.90b2cdb4f22-3.7.1
4.6.7+git.38.90b2cdb4f22-3.7.1
resource-agents
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP3
before 4.0.1+git.1495055229.643177f1-2.4.2
4.0.1+git.1495055229.643177f1-2.4.2
samba
SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP3
before 4.6.7+git.38.90b2cdb4f22-3.7.1
4.6.7+git.38.90b2cdb4f22-3.7.1
samba
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3
before 4.6.7+git.38.90b2cdb4f22-3.7.1
4.6.7+git.38.90b2cdb4f22-3.7.1
samba
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
before 4.6.7+git.38.90b2cdb4f22-3.7.1
4.6.7+git.38.90b2cdb4f22-3.7.1
samba
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
before 4.6.7+git.38.90b2cdb4f22-3.7.1
4.6.7+git.38.90b2cdb4f22-3.7.1
heimdal
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 1.6~git20131207+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2, plus listed versions
1.6~git20120403+dfsg1-3ubuntu0.11.6~git20120403+dfsg1-3ubuntu0.21.6~git20131207+dfsg-1ubuntu11.6~git20131207+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1
1.6~git20131207+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2
samba
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.10, plus listed versions
2:3.6.18-1ubuntu32:4.0.10+dfsg-4ubuntu22:4.0.13+dfsg-1ubuntu12:4.1.3+dfsg-2ubuntu22:4.1.3+dfsg-2ubuntu3
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2:4.1.3+dfsg-2ubuntu42:4.1.3+dfsg-2ubuntu52:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu12:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu22:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.12:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.22:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.32:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.42:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.52:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.72:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.82:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.92:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.112:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.122:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.132:4.3.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.22:4.3.9+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.12:4.3.9+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.32:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.12:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.22:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.32:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.42:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.62:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.72:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.82:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.9
2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.10
heimdal
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1, plus listed versions
1.6~rc2+dfsg-10ubuntu11.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1
1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1
samba
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.9, plus listed versions
2:4.1.17+dfsg-4ubuntu22:4.1.20+dfsg-1ubuntu12:4.1.20+dfsg-1ubuntu22:4.1.20+dfsg-1ubuntu32:4.1.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5
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2:4.3.3+dfsg-1ubuntu12:4.3.3+dfsg-1ubuntu22:4.3.3+dfsg-1ubuntu32:4.3.6+dfsg-1ubuntu12:4.3.8+dfsg-0ubuntu12:4.3.9+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.12:4.3.9+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.22:4.3.9+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.32:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.12:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.32:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.52:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.62:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.72:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.8
2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.9
samba
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 66 CVEs
before 4.14.6+git.182.2205d5224e3-1.1
4.14.6+git.182.2205d5224e3-1.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2017-11103 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.1) in Heimdal Project Heimdal, published July 13, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 5.12%, the 92nd percentile. Fixed in heimdal 7.4.0-r0.

References

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