Access Restriction Bypass Affecting kerberos package, versions [,1.10.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KERBEROS-3006789
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Jun 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Jun 2012

CVE-2012-1012  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kerberos to version 1.10.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass server/server_stubs.c in the kadmin protocol implementation in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.10 before 1.10.1 does not properly restrict access to (1) SET_STRING and (2) GET_STRINGS operations, which might allow remote authenticated administrators to modify or read string attributes by leveraging the global list privilege.

CVSS Scores

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