PT-2017-17175 · Heimdal · Heimdal

Published 2017-08-25 · Updated 2021-08-12 · CVE-2017-6594

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Heimdal versions prior to 7.3

Description The issue is related to the transit path validation code, which might allow attackers to bypass the capath policy protection mechanism. This can be achieved by leveraging the failure to add the previous hop realm to the transit path of issued tickets.

Recommendations For versions prior to 7.3, update to version 7.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Certificate Validation

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-295

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-6594

MGASA-2017-0308

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10946-1

Affected Products

Heimdal

References · 15

• https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/b1e699103f08d6a0ca46a122193c9da65f6cf837 · Patch
• https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/releases/tag/heimdal-7.3.0 · Patch
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-08/msg00062.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0308.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0308 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6594 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6594 · Vendor Advisory
• http://h5l.org/advisories.html?show=2017-04-13 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-6594 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6594 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6594 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6594 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6594 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-08/msg00062.html · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21550 · Note