CVE-2016-2860: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The newEntry function in ptserver/ptprocs.c in OpenAFS before 1.6.17 allows remote authenticated users from foreign Kerberos realms to bypass intended access restrictions and create arbitrary groups as administrators by leveraging mishandling of the creator ID.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Openafs Openafs: up to and including 1.6.16

Published 2016-05-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.