MIT Kerberos 5 up to 1.21.2 GSS Message Token privilege escalation

CVSS Meta Temp Score
CVSS is a standardized scoring system to determine possibilities of attacks. The Temp Score considers temporal factors like disclosure, exploit and countermeasures. The unique Meta Score calculates the average score of different sources to provide a normalized scoring system.
Current Exploit Price (≈)
Our analysts are monitoring exploit markets and are in contact with vulnerability brokers. The range indicates the observed or calculated exploit price to be seen on exploit markets. A good indicator to understand the monetary effort required for and the popularity of an attack.
CTI Interest Score
Our Cyber Threat Intelligence team is monitoring different web sites, mailing lists, exploit markets and social media networks. The CTI Interest Score identifies the interest of attackers and the security community for this specific vulnerability in real-time. A high score indicates an elevated risk to be targeted for this vulnerability.
7.2$0-$5k0.00

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in MIT Kerberos 5 up to 1.21.2. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component GSS Message Token Handler. Performing a manipulation results in an unknown weakness. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2024-37371. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in MIT Kerberos 5 up to 1.21.2. This affects some unknown processing of the component GSS Message Token Handler. The impact remains unknown. The summary by CVE is:

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.21.3, an attacker can cause invalid memory reads during GSS message token handling by sending message tokens with invalid length fields.

It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-37371 since 06/06/2024. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 209242 (Oracle MySQL Cluster 8.0.x < 8.0.40 / 8.4.x < 8.4.3 / 9.0.x < 9.0.2 (October 2024 CPU)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.21.3 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at web.mit.edu.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (209242), EUVD (EUVD-2024-36619) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-0167). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Affected

  • Oracle MySQL
  • Debian Linux
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Ubuntu Linux
  • SUSE Linux
  • Oracle Linux
  • NetApp ActiveIQ Unified Manager
  • RESF Rocky Linux
  • MariaDB MariaDB

Productinfo

Type

Vendor

Name

Version

License

Website

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.2

VulDB Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Temp Score: 5.3
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 9.1
NVD Vector: 🔍

CVSSv2info

AVACAuCIA
💳💳💳💳💳💳
💳💳💳💳💳💳
💳💳💳💳💳💳
VectorComplexityAuthenticationConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
UnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock
UnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock
UnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock

VulDB Base Score: 🔍
VulDB Temp Score: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

Exploitinginfo

Class: Privilege escalation
CWE: Unknown
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍

Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

EPSS Score: 🔍
EPSS Percentile: 🔍

Price Prediction: 🔍
Current Price Estimation: 🔍

0-DayUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock
TodayUnlockUnlockUnlockUnlock

Nessus ID: 209242
Nessus Name: Oracle MySQL Cluster 8.0.x < 8.0.40 / 8.4.x < 8.4.3 / 9.0.x < 9.0.2 (October 2024 CPU)

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
Active Actors: 🔍
Active APT Groups: 🔍

Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔍

Upgrade: Kerberos 5 1.21.3

Timelineinfo

06/06/2024 🔍
06/28/2024 +22 days 🔍
06/28/2024 +0 days 🔍
12/02/2025 +522 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mit.edu

Advisory: bugzilla.redhat.com
Status: Confirmed
Confirmation: 🔍

CVE: CVE-2024-37371 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-37371
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-269919
EUVD: 🔍
CERT Bund: WID-SEC-2025-0167 - Oracle MySQL: Mehrere Schwachstellen

Entryinfo

Created: 06/28/2024 07:21
Updated: 12/02/2025 21:21
Changes: 06/28/2024 07:21 (54), 06/29/2024 17:12 (1), 07/01/2024 23:41 (1), 08/28/2024 02:34 (11), 10/19/2024 13:32 (2), 06/15/2025 01:50 (1), 12/02/2025 21:21 (7)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103

Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Discussion

No comments yet. Languages: en.

Please log in to comment.

◂ PreviousOverviewNext ▸

Do you want to use VulDB in your project?

Use the official API to access entries easily!