Upstream information

CVE-2017-6594 at MITRE

Description

The transit path validation code in Heimdal before 7.3 might allow attackers to bypass the capath policy protection mechanism by leveraging failure to add the previous hop realm to the transit path of issued tickets.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1048278 [RESOLVED / INVALID]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2017:2180-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • libheimdal >= 7.7.0-1.11
  • libheimdal-devel >= 7.7.0-1.11
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA libheimdal-7.7.0-1.11

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Apr 17 21:53:08 2017
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:13:54 2023