Is CVE-2013-1415 being actively exploited?

CVE-2013-1415 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2013-1415?

CVE-2013-1415 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 5.0 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2013-1415

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 3.7%EU EUVD

The pkinit_check_kdc_pkid function in plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in the PKINIT implementation in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.10.4 and 1.11.x before 1.11.1 does not properly handle errors during extraction of fields from an X.509 certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed KRB5_PADATA_PK_AS_REQ AS-REQ request.

Key facts

CVSS score: 5.0 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-476
EPSS score: 3.7% (90th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2013-1453)
Published: March 5, 2013
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-1453 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

mit / kerberos 5
mit / kerberos 5
opensuse / opensuse

References

http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7570(Vendor Advisory)
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7577(Vendor Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00090.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/55040(Third Party Advisory)
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krb5-1.10/(Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krb5-1.11/(Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:157(Third Party Advisory)
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/f249555301940c6df3a2cdda13b56b5674eebc2e(Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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