Auth bypass in Mit Kerberos 5
CVE-2007-0956
The telnet daemon (telnetd) in MIT krb5 before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain system access via a username beginning with a '-' character, a similar issue to CVE-2007-0882.
Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication
EPSS: 0.298 (98.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mit Kerberos_5
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 5.10, 6.06, 6.10
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 3.1, 4.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (Broken Link, x_refsource_OVAL, signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)