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CVE-2007-5972
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…
- 9.0HighCVSS base score
- 2.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 22 days later
· 22 days later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | High9.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
13
- 39784 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-940-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2008:002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 26750 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20071208 Venustech reports of MIT krb5 vulns [CVE-2007-5894 CVE-2007-5901 CVE-2007-5902 CVE-2007-5971 CVE-2007-5972] (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- ADV-2010-1192 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 44747 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20071208 MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 39290 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-924-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 28636 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199211 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2012 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2007-5942 (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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