9.3

CVE-2007-5894: mit kerberos_5

CVSS: 9.3v2.0HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2007-5894
Published 06-12-2007Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2007-5894 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in mit kerberos_5. EPSS estimates a 2.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.3/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.69%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10899-1

Timeline

  1. 06-12-2007
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The reply function in ftpd.c in the gssftp ftpd in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) does not initialize the length variable when auth_type has a certain value, which has unknown impact and remote authenticated attack vectors. NOTE: the original disclosure misidentifies the conditions under which the uninitialized variable is used. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, stating " The 'length' variable is only uninitialized if 'auth_type' is neither the 'KERBEROS_V4' nor 'GSSAPI'; this condition cannot occur in the unmodified source code.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.69%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

86%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.69% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
2.69%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • krb5< 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-1
Mit1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

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