CVE-2017-7562

mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.032 · 88 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
3.18% (88th) EPSS
CVSS 4 · medium
Is it mine?
6 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

An authentication bypass flaw was found in the way krb5's certauth interface before 1.16.1 handled the validation of client certificates. A remote attacker able to communicate with the KDC could potentially use this flaw to impersonate arbitrary principals under rare and erroneous circumstances.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 2.9
v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6
v3.06.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.06.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6
v3.16mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-287USCWE-295US
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affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

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sources

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cnnvdenisa_euvdnvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2018-07-26modified 2026-06-17
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references (26)

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