CVE-2017-7562: MIT krb5

Improper certificate validation in MIT krb5

CVSS 6.5 MediumEPSS 0.032 · 88th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 26 Jul 2018, 15:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
MIT	krb5	affected 1.16.1

Identifiers

CVE-2017-7562

CNA

redhat

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-287 · CWE-295

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.5	Medium	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.032, the 88th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 26 Jul 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694/commits/50fe4074f188c2d4da0c421e96553acea8378db2 confirm
www.securityfocus.com/bid/100511 vdb-entrybid
github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694/commits/1de6ca2f2eb1fdbab51f1549a25a6903aefcc196 confirm
github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694 confirm
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0666 vendor-advisoryredhat
github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694/commits/b7af544e50a4d8291524f590e20dd44430bf627d confirm
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7562 confirm

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