CVE-2019-25018

7.5 highEPSS 1.6%

High (7.5) in mit krb5-appl. EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the rcp client in MIT krb5-appl through 1.0.3, malicious servers could bypass intended access restrictions via the filename of . or an empty filename, similar to CVE-2018-20685 and CVE-2019-7282. The impact is modifying the permissions of the target directory on the client side. NOTE: MIT krb5-appl is not supported upstream but is shipped by a few Linux distributions. The affected code was removed from the supported MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) product many years ago, at version 1.8.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 75% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2021-02-02
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mit:krb5-appl

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131109
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131109

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