CVE-2016-2860

medium
Published 2016-05-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
4.0
VIR risk
6.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2860

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2016-001.txt

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.6.17-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.6.17-1
debian debiansidfixed1.6.17-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.6.17-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openafsopenafs{"endIncluding":"1.6.16"}

References

CWEs

CWE-284

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.