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CVE-2016-2860

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-05-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The newEntry function in ptserver/ptprocs.c in OpenAFS before 1.6.17 allows remote authenticated users from foreign Kerberos realms to bypass intended access restrictions and create arbitrary groups as administrators by leveraging mishandling of the creator ID.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• The OpenAFS Foundation OpenAFS: through 1.6.16

References

• http://git.openafs.org/?p=openafs.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=396240cf070a806b91fea81131d034e1399af1e0
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3569
• http://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2016-001.txt
• https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2016/000496.html
• https://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.17/RELNOTES-1.6.17
• http://git.openafs.org/?p=openafs.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=396240cf070a806b91fea81131d034e1399af1e0
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3569
• http://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2016-001.txt
• https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2016/000496.html
• https://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.17/RELNOTES-1.6.17

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