What is CVE-2018-5710?

CVE-2018-5710 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mit Kerberos, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-01-16.

How severe is CVE-2018-5710?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-5710 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

NULL pointer dereference in Mit Kerberos

CVE-2018-5710

An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. The pre-defined function "strlen" is getting a "NULL" string as a parameter value in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC), wh…

EPSS: 0.018 (76.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Mit Kerberos
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

Public proof-of-concept exploits

akiraabe/myapp-container-jaxrs

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-5710?: CVE-2018-5710 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mit Kerberos, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-01-16.
How severe is CVE-2018-5710?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-5710 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.