CVE-2024-37371
9.1
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.6%
Description
In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.21.3, an attacker can cause invalid memory reads during GSS message token handling by sending message tokens with invalid length fields.
How to fix CVE-2024-37371
To remediate CVE-2024-37371, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/krb5—upgrade to 1.20.2-r1 or later
- Debian/krb5—upgrade to 1.18.3-6+deb11u5 or later
Is CVE-2024-37371 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.20.2-r1
- from 0, < 1.18.3-6+deb11u5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |