CVE-2012-1012

MIT Kerberos 5 <1.10.1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Various Sources x_refsource_confirm
http://src.mit.edu/fisheye/changelog/krb5/?cs=25704
Various Sources x_refsource_confirm
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.10/
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796438

Scores

EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 46.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (2)
mit/kerberos_5 1.10
mit/kerberos_5 1.10.1
Published Jun 07, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026