CVE-2007-5972
HIGH · CVSS 9.0EPSS 2.7%EU EUVD
Double free vulnerability in the krb5_def_store_mkey function in lib/kdb/kdb_default.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.5 has unknown impact and remote authenticated attack vectors. NOTE: the free operations occur in code that stores the krb5kdc master key, and so the attacker must have privileges to store this key.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 2.7% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5942)
- Published
- December 6, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5942 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mit / kerberos 5
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199211
- http://osvdb.org/44747
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0176.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Dec/0321.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28636(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39290
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39784
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-924-1
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26750
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-940-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1192
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2012
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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