High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 28, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-6594

Description

The transit path validation code in Heimdal before 7.3 might allow attackers to bypass the capath policy protection mechanism by leveraging failure to add the previous hop realm to the transit path of issued tickets.

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Affected products

Heimdal/Heimdal
cpe:2.3:a:heimdal_project:heimdal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=7.2.0
OpenSUSE/Leap2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

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References

github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/b1e699103f08d6a0ca46a122193c9da65f6cf837nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com/heimdal/heimdal/releases/tag/heimdal-7.3.0nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-08/msg00062.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
www.h5l.org/advisories.htmlnvdVendor Advisory

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