Vulnerability in Heimdal
CVE-2006-3084
The (1) ftpd and (2) ksu programs in (a) MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) up to 1.5, and 1.4.x before 1.4.4, and (b) Heimdal 0.7.2 and earlier, do not check return codes for setuid calls, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing setuid to fail to drop privileges. NOTE: as of 20060808, it is not known whether an exploitable attack scenario exists for these issues.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.005 (40.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 40th percentile — 40.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Heimdal
- Mit Kerberos 5 — versions 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- fedoranews.org/cms/node/2376 (vendor-advisory)
- web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-001-setuid.txt
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_20_sr.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/401660 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-21.xml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21461 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21467 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/27872 (vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1146 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21436 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)