CVE-2012-1012

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-1012
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-06-07 19:55:07 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Descriptionserver/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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.10 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.10.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
796438 – (CVE-2012-1012) CVE-2012-1012 krb5: flaw in access control handling for strings in kadmin af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
src.mit.edu/fisheye/changelog/krb5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 src.mit.edu
RT/krbdev.mit.edu: Ticket #7093 Access controls for string RPCs [CVE-2012-1012] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 krbdev.mit.edu
Kerberos 5 Release 1.10.3 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 web.mit.edu
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