High
Security advisory
The kerberos package before 1.0.0 for Node.js allows arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation via injection of malicious DLLs through use of the kerberos_sspi LoadLibrary() method, because of a DLL path search.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13110
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The kerberos package before 1.0.0 for Node.js allows arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation via injection of malicious DLLs through use of the kerberos_sspi LoadLibrary() method, because of a DLL path search.
osv:CVE-2020-13110
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-13110",
"method": "structured",
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"summary": "The kerberos package before 1.0.0 for Node.js allows arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation via injection of malicious DLLs through use of the kerberos_sspi LoadLibrary() method, because of a DLL path search.",
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"versions": [
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"V0.0.21",
"V0.0.20",
"V0.0.19",
"V0.0.18",
"V0.0.17",
"V0.0.16",
"V0.0.15",
"V0.0.14",
"V0.0.13",
"V0.0.12",
"V0.0.11",
"V0.0.10",
"V0.0.9",
"V0.0.8",
"V0.0.7",
"V0.0.6",
"V0.0.5",
"V0.0.4"
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:46.558025401Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://medium.com/%40kiddo_Ha3ker/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-cb4b32031cd",
"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/op-innovate_dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-activity-6667043749547253760-kVlW",
"https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1514",
"https://www.op-c.net/2020/05/15/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package/"
],
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"related_cves": [
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"security_relevant": true,
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 436364,
"published_at": "2020-05-16T12:15:12.14+00:00"
}