CVE-2001-0033: Kth Kerberos

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

KTH Kerberos IV allows local users to change the configuration of a Kerberos server running at an elevated privilege by specifying an alternate directory using with the KRBCONFDIR environmental variable, which allows the user to gain additional privileges.

Affected products

• Kth Kth Kerberos: version 4 only
• Netbsd Netbsd: version 1.5 only

Published 2001-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.