CVE-2020-28196

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-28196
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-06 08:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:21:00 UTC
DescriptionMIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.17.2 and 1.18.x before 1.18.3 allows unbounded recursion via an ASN.1-encoded Kerberos message because the lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c support for BER indefinite lengths lacks a recursion limit.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-674

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 All All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 All All All All
Application Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager - All All All
Application Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager - All All All
Application Netapp Cloud Backup - All All All
Application Netapp Oncommand Insight - All All All
Application Netapp Oncommand Workflow Automation - All All All
Application Netapp Snapcenter - All All All
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Policy 1.14.0 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Offline Mediation Controller 12.0.0.3.0 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Pricing Design Center 12.0.0.3.0 All All All
Application Oracle Mysql Server All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: krb5-1.18.2-29.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
[bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8 lists.apache.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: krb5-1.17-47.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2022 MISC www.oracle.com
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
April 2021 MySQL Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 2437-1] krb5 security update MLIST lists.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2021 N/A www.oracle.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4795-1 krb5 DEBIAN www.debian.org
Add recursion limit for ASN.1 indefinite lengths · krb5/krb5@57415dd · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
MIT Kerberos 5: Denial of service (GLSA 202011-17) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: krb5-1.18.2-29.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE-2020-28196 MIT Kerberos 5 Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8 lists.apache.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: krb5-1.18.2-29.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: krb5-1.17-47.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2021 MISC www.oracle.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: krb5-1.18.2-29.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159190 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for krb5 (ELSA-2021-1593)
  • 159271 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for krb5 (ELSA-2021-9294)
  • 20221 Oracle MySQL April 2021 Critical Patch Update (CPUAPR2021)
  • 239334 Red Hat Update for krb5 (RHSA-2021:1593)
  • 296085 Oracle Solaris 11.3 Support Repository Update (SRU) 36.30.0 Missing (CPUOCT2022)
  • 354065 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for krb5 : ALAS2-2022-1845
  • 500275 Alpine Linux Security Update for krb5
  • 504040 Alpine Linux Security Update for krb5
  • 591406 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU GNU/Linux subsystem Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSB-439005, ICSA-22-104-13)
  • 670186 EulerOS Security Update for krb5 (EulerOS-SA-2021-1685)
  • 690151 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for mysql (56ba4513-a1be-11eb-9072-d4c9ef517024)
  • 750550 OpenSUSE Security Update for krb5 (openSUSE-SU-2020:2062-1)
  • 750560 OpenSUSE Security Update for krb5 (openSUSE-SU-2020:2037-1)
  • 900398 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for krb5 (5993)
  • 940317 AlmaLinux Security Update for krb5 (ALSA-2021:1593)
  • 960675 Rocky Linux Security Update for krb5 (RLSA-2021:1593)
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