CVE-2023-25563CWE-125

GSS-NTLMSSP vulnerable to multiple out-of-bounds reads when decoding NTLM fields

Medium · published February 14, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.9
EPSS
1%
Percentile
65.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

GSS-NTLMSSP is a mechglue plugin for the GSSAPI library that implements NTLM authentication. Prior to version 1.2.0, multiple out-of-bounds reads when decoding NTLM fields can trigger a denial of service. A 32-bit integer overflow condition can lead to incorrect checks of consistency of length of internal buffers. Although most applications will error out before accepting a singe input buffer of 4GB in length this could theoretically happen. This vulnerability can be triggered via the main `gss_accept_sec_context` entry point if the application allows tokens greater than 4GB in length. This can lead to a large, up to 65KB, out-of-bounds read which could cause a denial-of-service if it reads from unmapped memory. Version 1.2.0 contains a patch for the out-of-bounds reads.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01091 · 65.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2023-02-14T17:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 FEB 17:35Z
    GSS-NTLMSSP vulnerable to multiple out-of-bounds reads when decoding NTLM fields
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