CVE-2010-0283: Mit Kerberos

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 before 1.7.2, and 1.8 alpha, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via an invalid (1) AS-REQ or (2) TGS-REQ request.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos: version 5-1.8 only
• Mit Kerberos 5: version 1.7 only; version 1.7.1 only

Published 2010-02-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.