CVE-2020-10595
pam-krb5 before 4.9 has a buffer overflow that might cause remote code execution in situations involving supplemental prompting by a Kerberos library. It may overflow a buffer provided by the
02 Description
pam-krb5 before 4.9 has a buffer overflow that might cause remote code execution in situations involving supplemental prompting by a Kerberos library. It may overflow a buffer provided by the
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.78% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-03-31 12:36Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 11:06Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-03-16
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 301ecc988c627c2740fdf55f8f7a0f12135a2cb57bcd407b27c8a61af596f7d0
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/rra/pam-krb5/commit/e7879e27a37119fad4faf133a9f70bdcdc75d760
- www.openwall.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/03/31/1
- www.debian.orgDSA-4648https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4648
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200401 [SECURITY] [DLA 2166-1] libpam-krb5 security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00000.html
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4314-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4314-1/
- www.eyrie.orghttps://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/pam-krb5/security/2020-03-30.html
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- pam-krb5 Fixed in 4.9-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- libpam-krb5 Fixed in 4.9-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- libpam-krb5 Fixed in 4.9-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- libpam-krb5 Fixed in 4.9-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- libpam-krb5 Fixed in 4.7-2ubuntu0.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- libpam-krb5 Fixed in 4.8-1ubuntu0.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- libpam-krb5 Fixed in 4.6-2ubuntu0.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.