CVE-2018-5709
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5709
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-5709.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-5709
- Downstream
- Published
- 2018-01-16T09:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:28Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. There is a variable "dbentry->nkeydata" in kadmin/dbutil/dump.c that can store 16-bit data but unknowingly the developer has assigned a "u4" variable to it, which is for 32-bit data. An attacker can use this vulnerability to affect other artifacts of the database as we know that a Kerberos database dump file contains trusted data.
- References