KTH Kerberos 4 KRBCONFDIR privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in KTH Kerberos 4. It has been rated as problematic. This impacts an unknown function. Performing a manipulation of the argument KRBCONFDIR as part of Environment Variable results in privileges management. This vulnerability was named CVE-2001-0033. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in KTH Kerberos 4. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument KRBCONFDIR as part of a Environment Variable leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

KTH Kerberos IV allows local users to change the configuration of a Kerberos server running at an elevated privilege by specifying an alternate directory using with the KRBCONFDIR environmental variable, which allows the user to gain additional privileges.

The weakness was presented 02/16/2001 by Jouko Pynnonen (FIRST) as not defined posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2001-0033. The exploitability is told to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (5738) and SecurityFocus (BID 2092†). See VDB-16444, VDB-16445 and VDB-16446 for similar entries. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

12/08/2000 🔍
02/16/2001 +70 days 🔍
02/16/2001 +0 days 🔍
07/03/2014 +4885 days 🔍
05/29/2018 +1426 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Jouko Pynnonen (FIRST)
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2001-0033 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2001-0033
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-16443
X-Force: 5738 - KTH Kerberos 4 user supplied configuration files
SecurityFocus: 2092 - KTH Kerberos 4 User-Supplied Configuration Files Vulnerability

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/03/2014 11:55
Updated: 05/29/2018 09:22
Changes: 07/03/2014 11:55 (49), 05/29/2018 09:22 (10)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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