CVE-2015-3206

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 25, 2017
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Apr 10, 2015

Description

The checkPassword function in python-kerberos does not authenticate the KDC it attempts to communicate with, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bad response), or have other unspecified impact by performing a man-in-the-middle attack.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

[oss-security] 20150521 CVE-2015-3206 python-kerberos: checkPassword() does not verify KDC authenticitymailing-list
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223802
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/kerberos
74760vdb-entry
https://github.com/apple/ccs-pykerberos/issues/31

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