CVE-2018-5729

krb5: null dereference in kadmind or DN container check bypass by supplying special crafted data

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.7

CVSS 3.0

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Published · March 1, 2018

Updated · June 28, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 4.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference