CVE-2018-5730

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
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-2018-5730

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5730.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201806-3

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.16.1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.16.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.16.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.16.1-1
debian debiansidfixed1.16.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.16.1-1

References

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