VDB-293996 · CVE-2025-24528 · Nessus 215175

MIT Kerberos 5 1.7 Incremental Propagation kadmind memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in MIT Kerberos 5 1.7. This affects an unknown part of the file kadmind of the component Incremental Propagation. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-24528. There is no exploit available. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in MIT Kerberos 5 1.7. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the file kadmind of the component Incremental Propagation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is availability.

The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-24528 since 01/23/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 02/10/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 215175 (SUSE SLES12 Security Update : krb5 (SUSE-SU-2025:0351-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (215175). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Productinfo

Type

Network Authentication Software

Vendor

Name

Kerberos 5

Version

License

open-source

CPE 2.3info

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CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv4info

VulDB Vector: 🔒
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.5

VulDB Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Temp Score: 3.5
VulDB Vector: 🔒
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv2info

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
CAPEC: 🔒
ATT&CK: 🔒

Local: No
Remote: Partially

Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined
Price Prediction: 🔍
Current Price Estimation: 🔒

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Nessus ID: 215175
Nessus Name: SUSE SLES12 Security Update : krb5 (SUSE-SU-2025:0351-1)

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
Active Actors: 🔍
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔒

Timelineinfo

01/23/2025 CVE reserved
01/29/2025 +6 days Advisory disclosed
01/29/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
02/10/2025 +12 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mit.edu

Advisory: bugzilla.redhat.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2025-24528 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-24528
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-293996

Entryinfo

Created: 01/29/2025 04:21 PM
Updated: 02/10/2025 10:06 AM
Changes: 01/29/2025 04:21 PM (53), 02/10/2025 10:06 AM (2)
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