CVE-2007-1216

Kerberos 5 vulnerability

CVSS

9.0

EPSS

9.9%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Double free vulnerability in the GSS-API library (lib/gssapi/krb5/k5unseal.c), as used by the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) in MIT krb5 before 1.6.1, when used with the authentication method provided by the RPCSEC_GSS RPC library, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code and modify the Kerberos key database via a message with an "an invalid direction encoding".

Affected vendor

Mit

Affected product

Kerberos 5

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-415 — Double Free

Published

2007-04-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 9.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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