How severe is CVE-2014-6324?

CVE-2014-6324 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 87.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2014-6324: Microsoft Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC)

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) Privilege Escalation Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-25

Remediation due

2022-04-15

Required action
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CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-6324

Description

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."

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 14, 2026

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CISA added CVE-2014-6324 to the KEV catalog 2,684 days after its CVE record was published.
It is one of 391 Microsoft entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 166 added in 2022.
Its current EPSS score (87.3%) is higher than that of 70% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

7 Links

Vendor advisories

Third-party advisories

Vulnerability databases

Other references

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2014/11/18/additional-information-about-cve-2014-6324.aspx

Record Details

Published

2014-11-18

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

microsoft

Credited to

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