CVE-2018-5730

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    CVE-2018-5730

    Published: 6 Mar 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to circumvent a DN containership check by supplying both a "linkdn" and "containerdn" database argument, or by supplying a DN string which is a left extension of a container DN string but is not hierarchically within the container DN.

    References: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042071, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3071, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891869, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00020.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00019.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GK5T6JPMBHBPKS7HNGHYUUF4KKRMNSNU/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIFUL3CPM4S5TOXTTOCQ3CUZN6XCXUTR/, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551082, https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e1caf6fb74981da62039846931ebdffed71309d1

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -e1caf6fb74981da62039846931ebdffed71309d1

    Affected versions

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    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
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    Availability
    None
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