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CVE-2006-6143The RPC library in Kerberos 5 1.4 through 1.4.4, and 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 8.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The RPC library in Kerberos 5 1.4 through 1.4.4, and 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) and other products that use this library, calls an uninitialized function pointer in freed memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 43 days later
· 43 days later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.2% · top 5.0% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
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- FEDORA-2007-034 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 31281 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 24966 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- VU#481564 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- USN-408-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- TA07-009B (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
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- SUSE-SA:2007:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
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- MDKSA-2007:008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 23903 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 21970 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 23667 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- GLSA-200701-21 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-002-rpc.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- OpenPKG-SA-2007.006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENPKGx_transferred
- FEDORA-2007-033 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- TA07-109A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-925 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 23707 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0111 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20070109 MITKRB5-SA-2006-002: kadmind (via RPC lib) calls uninitialized function pointer (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 23772 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23701 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2007-04-19 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- ADV-2007-1470 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- kerberos-rpc-code-execution(31422) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-6126 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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