suse · CVE-2017-7562

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:54:55 UTC Updated: 2025-10-05 02:21:52 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-7562 severity moderate: SUSE including 27 source package names (krb5, krb5-1.12.1-38.5.3, …), 197 product×package rows across 37 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, Magnum Orchestration 7, … (37 product lines)): Known Not Affected 158, Fixed 39.

Description:

An authentication bypass flaw was found in the way krb5's certauth interface before 1.16.1 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.

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