CVE-2014-5354: Mit Kerberos

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.1, when the KDC uses LDAP, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by creating a database entry for a keyless principal, as demonstrated by a kadmin "add_principal -nokey" or "purgekeys -all" command.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos: version 5_1.13 only
• Mit Kerberos 5: version 1.12 only; version 1.12.1 only; version 1.12.2 only

Published 2014-12-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.