What is CVE-2014-8650?

CVE-2014-8650 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Requests-Kerberos Project, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-12-15.

How severe is CVE-2014-8650?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Requests-Kerberos Project

CVE-2014-8650

python-requests-Kerberos through 0.5 does not handle mutual authentication

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.036 (88.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Requests-kerberos_project Requests-kerberos
Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-8650?: CVE-2014-8650 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Requests-Kerberos Project, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-12-15.
How severe is CVE-2014-8650?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.