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CVE-2018-5730

MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to circumvent a DN containership check by supplying both a "linkdn" and "containerdn" database argument, or by supplying a DN string which is a left extension of a container DN string but is not hierarchically within the container DN.

Published

2018-03-06T20:29:00.657

Last Modified

2025-05-05T14:12:56.457

Status

Analyzed

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 3.8 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

8.0

Impact Score

4.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-90

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mit	kerberos_5	< 5-1.21.2	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	26	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	27	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	8.0	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	9.0	Yes
Operating System	redhat	enterprise_linux_desktop	7.0	Yes
Operating System	redhat	enterprise_linux_server	7.0	Yes
Operating System	redhat	enterprise_linux_workstation	7.0	Yes

References

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042071 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3071 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891869 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551082 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e1caf6fb74981da62039846931ebdffed71309d1 Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GK5T6JPMBHBPKS7HNGHYUUF4KKRMNSNU/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIFUL3CPM4S5TOXTTOCQ3CUZN6XCXUTR/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042071 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3071 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891869 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551082 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e1caf6fb74981da62039846931ebdffed71309d1 Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GK5T6JPMBHBPKS7HNGHYUUF4KKRMNSNU/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIFUL3CPM4S5TOXTTOCQ3CUZN6XCXUTR/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)