CVE-2016-2860 - Improper Access Control

Severity

40%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-05-13 16:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-05-19 16:43:00

Affected Software

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

References

http://git.openafs.org/?p=openafs.git;a=commitdiff;h=396240cf070a806b91fea81131d034e1399af1e0

Vendor Advisory

DSA-3569

http://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2016-001.txt

Vendor Advisory

[OpenAFS-announce] 20160316 OpenAFS security release 1.6.17 available

https://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.17/RELNOTES-1.6.17

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