Use of Weak Hash Affecting kerberos package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KERBEROS-10345074
  • published12 Jun 2025
  • disclosed15 Apr 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Apr 2025

CVE-2025-3576  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-328  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for kerberos.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Weak Hash that allows GSSAPI messages using RC4-HMAC-MD5 to be spoofed by an attacker in a MitM position. The attacker can forge message integrity codes and tamper with messages by exploiting MD5 collisions. This is only exploitable if RC4 is preferred over stronger encryption types.

CVSS Base Scores

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