Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Kerberos 5 - CVE-2012-1012
Published: June 7, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU44014
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-1012
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: MIT
Affected software:
Kerberos 5
Kerberos 5
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to read and manipulate data.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-1012
Install update from vendor's website.