CVE-2012-1012

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

07/06/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None