CVE-2012-1012: Mit Kerberos 5

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

server/server_stubs.c in the kadmin protocol implementation in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.10 before 1.10.1 does not properly restrict access to (1) SET_STRING and (2) GET_STRINGS operations, which might allow remote authenticated administrators to modify or read string attributes by leveraging the global list privilege.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos 5: version 1.10 only; version 1.10.1 only

Published 2012-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.