Vulnerability in Kth Kerberos

CVE-2001-1444

The Kerberos Telnet protocol, as implemented by KTH Kerberos IV and Kerberos V (Heimdal), does not encrypt authentication and encryption options sent from the server, which allows remote attackers to downgrade authentication and encryption mechanisms via a man-in-the-middle attack.

EPSS: 0.013 (67.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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