Heimdal vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product19 versions
The short answer

Heimdal is made by Kth. We track 6 published vulnerabilities in it, across 19 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Heimdal, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

Which Heimdal vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Heimdal's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Heimdal flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

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  1. 4.5%

    Multiple buffer overflows in Heimdal before 0.5, possibly in both the (1) kadmind and (2) kdc servers, may allow remote attackers to gain root access.

    CVSS10.0Published28 Oct 2002
  2. 3.1%

    telnetd in Heimdal 0.6.x before 0.6.6 and 0.7.x before 0.7.2 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) via unknown vectors that trigger a null dereference.

    CVSS7.8Published14 Feb 2006
  3. 2.4%

    Unknown vulnerabilities in Heimdal before 0.5 with unknown impact, possibly in the (1) kadmind and (2) kdc servers, may allow remote or local attackers to gain root or other access, but not via buffer overflows...

    CVSS10.0Published28 Oct 2002
  4. 1.5%

    Heimdal 0.6.x before 0.6.1 and 0.5.x before 0.5.3 does not properly perform certain consistency checks for cross-realm requests, which allows remote attackers with control of a realm to impersonate others in the...

    CVSS5.0Published4 May 2004
  5. 0.5%

    Unspecified vulnerability in rshd in Heimdal 0.6.x before 0.6.6 and 0.7.x before 0.7.2, when storing forwarded credentials, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files and change file ownership via unknown vectors.

    CVSS2.1Published8 Feb 2006
  6. 0.4%

    Kerberos 5 su (k5su) in FreeBSD 4.4 and earlier relies on the getlogin system call to determine if the user running k5su is root, which could allow a root-initiated process to regain its privileges after it has...

    CVSS7.2Published12 Aug 2002
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We track 6 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Heimdal, across 19 versions.

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