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CVE-2020-10595

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 4.78% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-03-31 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
remote code execution code execution
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CVE
CVE-2020-10595
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.78%

Original NVD Description

pam-krb5 before 4.9 has a buffer overflow that might cause remote code execution in situations involving supplemental prompting by a Kerberos library. It may overflow a buffer provided by the underlying Kerberos library by a single '\0' byte if an attacker responds to a prompt with an answer of a carefully chosen length. The effect may range from heap corruption to stack corruption depending on the structure of the underlying Kerberos library, with unknown effects but possibly including code execution. This code path is not used for normal authentication, but only when the Kerberos library does supplemental prompting, such as with PKINIT or when using the non-standard no_prompt PAM configuration option.

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