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CVE-2018-5709

7.5 highEPSS 2.0%

An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. There is a variable "dbentry->n_key_data" 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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-190
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

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