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CVE-2018-5729 Detail

Current 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 check by supplying tagged data that is internal to the database module.


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Severity

 


CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  4.7 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L


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Hyperlink Resource
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042071 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3071 Third Party Advisory 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891869 Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551083 Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e1caf6fb74981da62039846931ebdffed71309d1 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00020.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00019.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GK5T6JPMBHBPKS7HNGHYUUF4KKRMNSNU/ Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIFUL3CPM4S5TOXTTOCQ3CUZN6XCXUTR/ Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-5729
NVD Published Date:
03/06/2018
NVD Last Modified:
10/18/2021
Source:
MITRE