CVE-2018-5710
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.39%
Description
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), which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a modified kadmin client.
How to fix CVE-2018-5710
To remediate CVE-2018-5710, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.15.3-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 1.16.1-1 or later
Is CVE-2018-5710 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.15.3-r0
- from 0, < 1.16.1-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |