CVE-2017-6594

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-6594
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-08-28 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2021-08-12 17:50:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-295

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application H5l Heimdal All All All All
Application Heimdal Project Heimdal All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.3 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Project Leap 42.3 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Project Leap 42.3 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Release Heimdal 7.3 · heimdal/heimdal · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2017:2180-1: moderate: Security update for libheimdal SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
Fix transit path validation CVE-2017-6594 · heimdal/heimdal@b1e6991 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Heimdal security advisories CONFIRM www.h5l.org Vendor Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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