CVE-2018-5729

medium

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.

References

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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIFUL3CPM4S5TOXTTOCQ3CUZN6XCXUTR/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GK5T6JPMBHBPKS7HNGHYUUF4KKRMNSNU/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00019.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00020.html

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e1caf6fb74981da62039846931ebdffed71309d1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551083

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891869

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3071

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042071

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-17498

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-03-06

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00994