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CVE-2017-6594

Published: Aug 28, 2017Updated: May 13, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-295
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
1.8%
Top 24.8%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

The transit path validation code in Heimdal before 7.3 might allow attackers to bypass the capath policy protection mechanism by leveraging failure to add the previous hop realm to the transit path of issued tickets.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:HA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:HIntegrity
High
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-295

Affected Products

heimdal project
commercialaka heimdal
heimdalOn-prem
Security Products / endpoint-av-edr
opensuse
oss-project·DE
leapOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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Attack Graph

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MITRE ATT&CK

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References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-08/msg00062.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://www.h5l.org/advisories.html?show=2017-04-13
h5l.org
https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/b1e699103f08d6a0ca46a122193c9da65f6cf837
github.com
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