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CVE-2016-2860

6.5 mediumEPSS 1.5%

Medium (6.5). EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The newEntry function in ptserver/ptprocs.c in OpenAFS before 1.6.17 allows remote authenticated users from foreign Kerberos realms to bypass intended access restrictions and create arbitrary groups as administrators by leveraging mishandling of the creator ID.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-284
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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