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CVE-2017-6594
The transit path validation code in Heimdal before 7.3 might allow attackers to bypass the capath policy protection mechanism by…
High7.5EPSS 1.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The transit path validation code in Heimdal before 7.3 might allow attackers to bypass the capath policy protection mechanism by leveraging failure to add the previous hop realm to the transit path of issued tickets.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/releases/tag/heimdal-7.3.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2017:2180 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.h5l.org/advisories.html?show=2017-04-13 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/b1e699103f08d6a0ca46a122193c9da65f6cf837 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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