CVE-2001-0247

Kerberos 5 vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

19.3%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflows in BSD-based FTP servers allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long pattern string containing a {} sequence, as seen in (1) g_opendir, (2) g_lstat, (3) g_stat, and (4) the glob0 buffer as used in the glob functions glob2 and glob3.

Affected vendor

Mit

Affected product

Kerberos 5

CVSS vector

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

Published

2001-06-18

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 19.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Mit Kerberos 5 is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2001-0247.
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