Description
MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or bypass a DN container check by supplying tagged data that is internal to the database module.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- high
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- low
- Integrity
- low
- Availability
- low
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- MIT
- Published
- 3/6/2018
- Last Modified
- 5/5/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
mit : kerberos_5fedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedoradebian : debian_linuxdebian : debian_linuxredhat : enterprise_linux_desktopredhat : enterprise_linux_serverredhat : enterprise_linux_workstation
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