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CVE-2003-0082
The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.7 and earlier allows remote, authenticated attackers to cause a denial of…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.7 and earlier allows remote, authenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) on KDCs within the same realm using a certain protocol request that causes the KDC to corrupt its heap (aka "buffer underrun").
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- RHSA-2003:052 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20030331 GLSA: krb5 & mit-krb5 (200303-28) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2003-005-buf.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 7185 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:091 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:4430 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:244 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:051 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-266 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 54042 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2536 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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