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The KDC-spoofing flaw tracked as CVE-2021-23008 can be used to bypass Kerberos security and sign into the Big-IP Access Policy Manager or admin console.
F5 Networks’ Big-IP Application Delivery Services appliance contains a Key Distribution Center (KDC) spoofing vulnerability, researchers disclosed – which an attacker could use to get past the security measures that protect sensitive workloads.
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Specifically, an attacker could exploit the flaw (tracked as CVE-2021-23008) to bypass Kerberos security and sign into the Big-IP Access Policy Manager, according to researchers at Silverfort. Kerberos is a network authentication protocol that’s designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using se