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critical 9.8

CVE-2023-25613 json

LDAP Injection Vulnerability in Apache Kerby

published 2023-02-20 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-337f-xr2x-6fcf , EUVD-2023-0606

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An LDAP Injection vulnerability exists in the LdapIdentityBackend of Apache Kerby before 2.0.3.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.kerby:ldap-backend 2.0.3
  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Kerby LDAP Backend 2.0.3

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-25613 updated cvss 9.8

kerby-backend: LDAP Injection Vulnerability in Apache Kerby

  • Red Hat A-MQ Clients 2 kerby-backend kerby-backend Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 kerby-backend kerby-backend, org.apache.kerby org.apache.kerby Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 3 kerby-backend kerby-backend Red Hat Data Grid 8 kerby-backend kerby-backend Red Hat Fuse 7 kerby-backend kerby-backend Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 kerby-backend kerby-backend
    +5 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 kerby-backend kerby-backend Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 kerby-backend kerby-backend, keycloak-adapter-sso7_4-eap6 keycloak-adapter-sso7_4-eap6, keycloak-adapter-sso7_5-eap6 keycloak-adapter-sso7_5-eap6 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 kerb-core Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack kerb-core Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 kerby-backend kerby-backend
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.kerby:ldap-backend
<2.0.3
2.0.3

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Kerby LDAP Backend

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component

References

Sources

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