CVE-2006-3083
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
The (1) krshd and (2) v4rcp applications in (a) MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) up to 1.5, and 1.4.x before 1.4.4, when running on Linux and AIX, and (b) Heimdal 0.7.2 and earlier, do not check return codes for setuid calls, which allows local users to gain privileges by causing setuid to fail to drop privileges using attacks such as resource exhaustion.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (45th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-3080)
- Published
- August 9, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-3080 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- heimdal / heimdal
- mit / kerberos 5
- mit / kerberos 5
- mit / kerberos 5
- mit / kerberos 5
- mit / kerberos 5
References
- ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/heimdal/src/heimdal-0.7.2-setuid-patch.txt
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21402(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21423(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21436(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21439(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21441(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21456(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21461(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21467(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21527(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21613(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21847(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22291(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-21.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016664
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-211.htm
- http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-001-setuid.txt(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1146
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-15.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/580124(Patch, US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:139
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_20_sr.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_22_sr.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/27869
- http://www.osvdb.org/27870
- http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2006-08-08/
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0612.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442599/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443498/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19427
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-334-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3225(Vendor Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9515
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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