CVE-2004-1189: Mit Kerberos 5

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The add_to_history function in svr_principal.c in libkadm5srv for MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) up to 1.3.5, when performing a password change, does not properly track the password policy's history count and the maximum number of keys, which can cause an array index out-of-bounds error and may allow authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos 5: up to and including 1.3.5

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.