{"cve":"CVE-2007-4000","nvd":{"published":"2007-09-05T10:17:00.000","modified":"2026-06-16T22:43:13.243","status":"Modified","description":"The kadm5_modify_policy_internal function in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_policy.c in the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.5 through 1.6.2 does not properly check return values when the policy does not exist, which might allow remote authenticated users with the \"modify policy\" privilege to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger a write to an uninitialized pointer.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-824"],"references":["http://secunia.com/advisories/26676","http://secunia.com/advisories/26680","http://secunia.com/advisories/26700","http://secunia.com/advisories/26728","http://secunia.com/advisories/26783"],"products":["fedoraproject:fedora","mit:kerberos_5"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:48:28.501292361+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2007-4000","score":0.06139,"percentile":0.93457,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}