VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-28196

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability4.42%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-11-06
Last modified2026-10-14
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.17.2 and 1.18.x before 1.18.3 allows unbounded recursion via an ASN.1-encoded Kerberos message because the lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c support for BER indefinite lengths lacks a recursion limit.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-674
  • 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-674

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