CVE-2018-5729 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting MIT krb5 versions 1.6 and later, as well as products from Debian, Fedora, and Red Hat. It allows an authenticated kadmin with specific permissions to an LDAP Kerberos database to trigger a denial of service or bypass a DN container check through specially crafted tagged data, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference. The attack vector is network-based with low complexity, requiring high privileges, and has a CVSS score of 4.7. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 5-1.6, < 5-1.21.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
26CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:26:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
27CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:27:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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