CVE-2014-6324

CVE-2014-6324 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in Microsoft Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC). CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 25, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by April 15, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Microsoft has 390 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 117 of them linked to ransomware.

The Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2 allows remote authenticated domain users to obtain domain administrator privileges via a forged signature in a ticket, as exploited in the wild in November 2014, aka "Kerberos Checksum Vulnerability."

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2014/11/18/additional-information-about-cve-2014-6324.aspx
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142350249315918&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62556
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70958
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031237
• http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-323A
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-068
• http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2014/11/18/additional-information-about-cve-2014-6324.aspx