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CVE-2017-15088

plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2...

9.8 CriticalFix available

CVE-2017-15088 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in Mit Kerberos 5, published November 8, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 8.30%, the 94th percentile. Fixed in krb5 1.15.3-r0.

plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin code that is specific to Red Hat.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

8.30%Up 4.9 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 9.8

plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin code that is specific to Red Hat.

Record
CVE-2017-15088
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0
7.5 HighAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-121, CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin code that is specific to Red Hat.

Record
CVE-2017-15088
Weakness
CWE-121
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-6557 No score

plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin code that is specific to Red Hat.

Record
EUVD-2017-6557
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-3jq7-j743-cxfp 9.8

plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2...

plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin code that is specific to Red Hat.

Record
GHSA-3jq7-j743-cxfp
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-119, CWE-121
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2017-15088 9.8

plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin code that is specific to Red Hat.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2017-15088
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVBELL-CVE-2017-15088 9.8

CVE-2017-15088 does not affect BellSoft software

Record
BELL-CVE-2017-15088
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSV 9.8

plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin code that is specific to Red Hat.

Record
CVE-2017-15088
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-15088 9.8

plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin code that is specific to Red Hat.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15088
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-15088 9.8

plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin code that is specific to Red Hat.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15088
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0420 No score

Updated krb5 packages fix security vulnerabilities

An authentication bypass flaw was found in the way krb5's certauth interface handled the validation of client certificates. A remote attacker able to communicate with the KDC could potentially use this flaw to impersonate arbitrary principals under rare and erroneous circumstances (CVE-2017-7562). Note that this issue only affects Mageia 6.

RFC 2744 permits a GSS-API implementation to delete an existing security context on a second or subsequent call to gss_init_sec_context() or gss_accept_sec_context() if the call results in an error. This API behavior has been found to be dangerous, leading to the possibility of memory errors in some callers. For safety, GSS-API implementations should instead preserve existing security contexts on error until the caller deletes them (CVE-2017-11462).

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in get_matching_data() function when both the CA cert and the user cert have a long subject affecting krb5 that includes certauth plugin. Attack requires a validated certificate with a long subject and issuer, and a "pkinit_cert_match" string attribute on some principal in the database. A remote code execution exploit might also require that the attacker gets to choose the contents of the issuer in the validated cert (CVE-2017-15088).

Record
MGASA-2017-0420
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2948-1 No score

Security update for krb5

This update for krb5 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2017-15088: A buffer overflow in get_matching_data() was fixed that could under specific circumstances be used to execute code (bsc#1065274)
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2948-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
krb5
Alpine:v3.10
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.11
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.12
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.13
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.14
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.15
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.16
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.17
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.18
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.19
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
krb5
Alpine:v3.20
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.21
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.22
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.23
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.24
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.7
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.8
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Alpine:v3.9
before 1.15.3-r0
1.15.3-r0
krb5
Debian:12
before 1.15.2-2
1.15.2-2
krb5
Debian:13
before 1.15.2-2
1.15.2-2
krb5
Debian:14
before 1.15.2-2
1.15.2-2
krb5
Mageia:5
before 1.12.5-1.3.mga5
1.12.5-1.3.mga5
krb5
Mageia:6
before 1.15.1-2.2.mga6
1.15.1-2.2.mga6
krb5
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
before 1.12.5-40.16.1
1.12.5-40.16.1
krb5
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
before 1.12.5-40.16.1
1.12.5-40.16.1
krb5
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2
before 1.12.5-40.16.1
1.12.5-40.16.1
krb5
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2
before 1.12.5-40.16.1
1.12.5-40.16.1
krb5
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3
before 1.12.5-40.16.1
1.12.5-40.16.1
krb5
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
before 1.12.5-40.16.1
1.12.5-40.16.1
krb5
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
before 1.12.5-40.16.1
1.12.5-40.16.1
krb5
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
before 1.12.5-40.16.1
1.12.5-40.16.1
krb5
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
before 1.12.5-40.16.1
1.12.5-40.16.1
krb5
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
1.10.1+dfsg-6.1ubuntu11.11.3+dfsg-3ubuntu21.12+dfsg-2ubuntu11.12+dfsg-2ubuntu21.12+dfsg-2ubuntu3
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1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu41.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.21.12+dfsg-2ubuntu51.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.11.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.21.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.31.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.41.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.4+esm11.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.4+esm21.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.4+esm31.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.4+esm41.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.4+esm51.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.4+esm61.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.4+esm7
None known
krb5
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
before 1.13.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2.2+esm3, plus listed versions
1.13.2+dfsg-21.13.2+dfsg-31.13.2+dfsg-41.13.2+dfsg-51.13.2+dfsg-5ubuntu1
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1.13.2+dfsg-5ubuntu21.13.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2.11.13.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2.1+esm11.13.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2.2
1.13.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2.2+esm3

History

History
WhenChangedSources
2026-11-03aliasesEUVD
2026-11-02createdCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

References

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