CVE-2021-37750

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.18.5 and 1.19.x before 1.19.3 has a NULL pointer dereference in kdc/do_tgs_req.c via a FAST inner body that lacks a server field.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
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-2021-37750

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:3576

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-37750.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.19.3-1
suse slesaffected
rockylinux rocky8fixed
debian debianbookwormfixed1.18.3-7
debian debianbullseyefixed1.18.3-6+deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed1.18.3-7
debian debiansidfixed1.18.3-7
debian debiantrixiefixed1.18.3-7

References

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