CVE-2018-5729
MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or bypass a DN container
02 Description
MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or bypass a DN container
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
- 2.58% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 85.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 4.7 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- NVD analysis status
- Undergoing Analysis. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
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
- 2018-03-06 20:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 05:40Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-01-16
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476NULL Pointer DereferenceBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 1fcac55ac61a98daeca47cfcb6642c60a151ffab64c6f1ef4136da09f6481133
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securitytracker.com1042071http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042071
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551083
- github.comhttps://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e1caf6fb74981da62039846931ebdffed71309d1
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:3071https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3071
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2018-f97cb1c9b0https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIFUL3CPM4S5TOXTTOCQ3CUZN6XCXUTR/
- bugs.debian.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891869
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2018-391a1f3e61https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GK5T6JPMBHBPKS7HNGHYUUF4KKRMNSNU/
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20190125 [SECURITY] [DLA 1643-1] krb5 security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00020.html
- access.redhat.comRHBA-2019:0327https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20210930 [SECURITY] [DLA 2771-1] krb5 security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00019.html
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- krb5 Fixed in 1.16.1-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- krb5 Fixed in 1.16.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- krb5 Fixed in 1.16.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- krb5 Fixed in 1.16.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- krb5 Fixed in 1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.4
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- krb5 Fixed in 1.13.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- krb5 Fixed in 1.16-2ubuntu0.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.