CVE-2018-5729 (GCVE-0-2018-5729)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-06 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 05:40
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
4.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-03-01 00:00
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