CVE-2017-15088

critical
Published 2017-11-23 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/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

plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin code that is specific to Red Hat.

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-2017-15088

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15088.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/707

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/fbb687db1088ddd894d975996e5f6a4252b9a2b4

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1504045

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archaffected
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.15.2-2
debian debianbullseyefixed1.15.2-2
debian debianforkyfixed1.15.2-2
debian debiansidfixed1.15.2-2
debian debiantrixiefixed1.15.2-2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mitkerberos_5{"endIncluding":"1.15.2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-121 CWE-119

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