CVE-2017-6594

HIGH

Heimdal < 7.2.0 - Improper Certificate Validation

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/releases/tag/heimdal-7.3.0
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-08/msg00062.html
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.h5l.org/advisories.html?show=2017-04-13

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 42.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-295
Status published
Products (3)
heimdal_project/heimdal < 7.2.0
opensuse/leap 42.2
opensuse/leap 42.3
Published Aug 28, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026