CVE-2017-6594 — Improper Certificate Validation in Project Heimdal

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 51.80%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Heimdal Project HeimdalOpensuse Leap
Timeline
PublishedAug 28
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debianheimdal_project/heimdal< 7.1.0+dfsg-12+3
▶NVDopensuse/leap42.2, 42.3+1

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-jg5g-qq45-3g4q: The transit path validation code in Heimdal before 7↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2017-6594: The transit path validation code in Heimdal before 7↗2017-08-28
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OSV
CVE-2017-6594: The transit path validation code in Heimdal before 7↗2017-08-28
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-6594: heimdal - The transit path validation code in Heimdal before 7.3 might allow attackers to ...↗2017
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