CVE-2001-1444

Publication date

2005-04-21 04:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The Kerberos Telnet protocol, as implemented by KTH Kerberos IV and Kerberos V (Heimdal), does not encrypt authentication and encryption options sent from the server, which allows remote attackers to downgrade authentication and encryption mechanisms via a man-in-the-middle attack.