MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to circumvent a DN containership check by supplying both a "linkdn" and "containerdn" database argument, or by supplying a DN string which is a left extension of a container DN string but is not hierarchically within the container DN.
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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1643-1 krb5 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2771-1 krb5 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-17499 MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to circumvent a DN containership check by supplying both a "linkdn" and "containerdn" database argument, or by supplying a DN string which is a left extension of a container DN string but is not hierarchically within the container DN.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T05:40:51.262Z

Reserved: 2018-01-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-5730

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-03-06T20:29:00.657

Modified: 2025-05-05T14:12:56.457

Link: CVE-2018-5730

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-5730 - Bugzilla

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