CVE-2017-6594

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-08-28

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-295

Affected products

• Heimdal (Heimdal Project)
• Leap (Opensuse)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-08/msg00062.html
• http://www.h5l.org/advisories.html?show=2017-04-13
• https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/b1e699103f08d6a0ca46a122193c9da65f6cf837
• https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/releases/tag/heimdal-7.3.0