Microsoft Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-03-25
Federal due date
2022-04-15
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC)
EPSS
99.6th percentile (score 0.903, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-6324

CISA short description

The Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) in Microsoft allows remote authenticated domain users to obtain domain administrator privileges.

Required action

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EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.