CVE-2017-11462

critical
Published 2017-09-13 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Double free vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) allows attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving automatic deletion of security contexts on error.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11462

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11462.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/56f7b1bc95a2a3eeb420e069e7655fb181ade5cf

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1488873

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8598

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201710-8

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201710-9

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.15.2-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.15.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.15.2-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.15.2-1
debian debiansidfixed1.15.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.15.2-1
fedora fedora25affected
fedora fedora26affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mitkerberos_51.14
mitkerberos_51.14.1
mitkerberos_51.14.2
mitkerberos_51.14.3
mitkerberos_51.14.4
mitkerberos_51.14.5
mitkerberos_51.15
mitkerberos_51.15.1

References

CWEs

CWE-415

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