CVE-2013-6800

medium

Published 2013-11-18 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.0

Description

An unspecified third-party database module for the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.10.x allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted request, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-1418.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mit	kerberos	`5-1.10.5`
mit	kerberos	`5-1.10.6`
mit	kerberos	`5-1.10.7`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.10`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.10.1`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.10.2`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.10.3`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.10.4`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.