CVE-2025-59089: medium-severity vulnerability in latchset kdcproxy
Python-kdcproxy: remote dos via unbounded tcp upstream buffering
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.9epss 0.6%
If an attacker causes kdcproxy to connect to an attacker-controlled KDC server (e.g. through server-side request forgery), they can exploit the fact that kdcproxy does not enforce bounds on TCP response length to conduct a denial-of-service attack. While receiving the KDC's response, kdcproxy copies the entire buffered stream into a new
buffer on each recv() call, even when the transfer is incomplete, causing excessive memory allocation and CPU usage. Additionally, kdcproxy accepts incoming response chunks as long as the received data length is not exactly equal to the length indicated in the response
header, even when individual chunks or the total buffer exceed the maximum length of a Kerberos message. This allows an attacker to send unbounded data until the connection timeout is reached (approximately 12 seconds), exhausting server memory or CPU resources. Multiple concurrent requests can cause accept queue overflow, denying service to legitimate clients.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
latchset · kdcproxyRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-OnRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update ServiceRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update ServiceRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP SolutionsRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update SupportRelated CVEs — latchset kdcproxy
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References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21138https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21139https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21140https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21141https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21142https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21448https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21748https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21806https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21818https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21819https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21820https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21821