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CVE-2012-1012

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-06-07 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

server/server_stubs.c in the kadmin protocol implementation in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.10 before 1.10.1 does not properly restrict access to (1) SET_STRING and (2) GET_STRINGS operations, which might allow remote authenticated administrators to modify or read string attributes by leveraging the global list privilege.

Affected products

• MIT Kerberos 5: 1.10, 1.10.1

References

• http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?user=guest&pass=guest&id=7093
• http://src.mit.edu/fisheye/changelog/krb5/?cs=25704
• http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.10/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796438
• http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?user=guest&pass=guest&id=7093
• http://src.mit.edu/fisheye/changelog/krb5/?cs=25704
• http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.10/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796438

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