CVE-2014-4345: Mit Kerberos 5

High severity, CVSS 8.5. EPSS: 8.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one error in the krb5_encode_krbsecretkey function in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in the LDAP KDB module in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.x through 1.11.x before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a series of "cpw -keepold" commands.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos 5: version 1.6 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only; version 1.7 only; version 1.7.1 only; version 1.8 only; …

Published 2014-08-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.