01 Record
CVE-2001-0417
Kerberos 4 (aka krb4) allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on new ticket files.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Kerberos 4 (aka krb4) allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on new ticket files.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.41% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 35.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2001-05-24 04:00Z25 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 04:21Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2001-05-24
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 487ae8a3c618f77a802bdd616e8875015d9d6c10bc7849c17bedfc2262ff6843
05 Affected products
06 References
- archives.neohapsis.com20010307 Security advisory: Unsafe temporary file handling in krb4http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-03/0078.html
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2001:025http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-025.html