CVE-2017-6594 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00249.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Heimdal Project	Heimdal
Opensuse	Leap

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:heimdal_project:heimdal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.3:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-15648	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-08/msg00062.html
http://www.h5l.org/advisories.html?show=2017-04-13
https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/b1e699103f08d6a0ca46a122193c9da65f6cf837
https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/releases/tag/heimdal-7.3.0

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-28T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:33:20.475Z

Reserved: 2017-03-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-6594

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-08-28T19:29:01.400

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-6594

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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