National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1012

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796438

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796438

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.10/

Hyperlink:http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.10/

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://src.mit.edu/fisheye/changelog/krb5/?cs=25704

Hyperlink:http://src.mit.edu/fisheye/changelog/krb5/?cs=25704

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?user=guest&pass=guest&id=7093

Hyperlink:http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?user=guest&pass=guest&id=7093