Bug 1665296 (CVE-2018-20217) - CVE-2018-20217 krb5: Reachable assertion in the KDC using S4U2Self requests
Summary: CVE-2018-20217 krb5: Reachable assertion in the KDC using S4U2Self requests
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-20217
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1665297 1673016 1673017 1732339
Blocks: 1665299
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-01-10 21:45 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2023-09-07 19:38 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: krb5 1.17
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Last Closed: 2021-10-27 03:19:05 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2019-01-10 21:45:52 UTC
A vulnerability was found in in the KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.17. An authenticated user who can obtain a TGT using an older encryption type (DES, DES3, or RC4) can cause an assertion failure in the KDC by sending an S4U2Self request.


References:
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8763
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2KNHELH4YHNT6H2ESJWX2UIDXLBNGB2O/

Upstream Patch:
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/94e5eda5bb94d1d44733a49c3d9b6d1e42c74def

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2019-01-10 21:46:24 UTC
Created krb5 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1665297]

Comment 7 Rama 2019-02-20 22:45:39 UTC
Why is it that Status is New and Fixed In says 1.17? Is this bug really fixed in RHEL 7?
If so, is there a CentOS 7.x RPM with this fix already?

Comment 8 Robbie Harwood 2019-02-21 17:04:38 UTC
Hi Rama, 1.17 is the krb5 version that it's fixed in upstream.

This is the RHEL/Fedora bugtracker; CentOS bugs are tracked separately (by different people) at https://bugs.centos.org

Comment 10 Rama 2019-03-01 06:19:48 UTC
Hi Robbie,

We currently bundle krb5-libs-1.15.1-19.el7.x86_64 and krb5-devel-1.15.1-19.el7.x86_64 on the top of the CentOS 7.5.1804. 
And we are trying to fix cve-2018-20217. Idea is to apply the upstream patch onto this source and rebuild source RPM and RPM for 1.17.

I will be raising this question on CentOS forum as suggested.
Would appreciate if you can share your thoughts as you are involved with krb5 development.

Comment 12 Joshua Padman 2019-05-15 22:55:17 UTC
This vulnerability is out of security support scope for the following product:
 * Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform 6

Please refer to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes for more details.

Comment 13 Joshua Padman 2019-07-10 05:32:51 UTC
This vulnerability is out of security support scope for the following product:
 * Red Hat JBoss Core Services
 * Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2

Please refer to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes for more details.


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