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CVE-2008-5690
The Kerberos credential renewal feature in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10, and OpenSolaris build snv_01 through snv_104, allows local users to…
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 0.38%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 68% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Kerberos credential renewal feature in Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10, and OpenSolaris build snv_01 through snv_104, allows local users to cause a denial of service (authentication failure) via unspecified vectors related to incorrect cache file permissions, and lack of credential storage by the store_cred function in pam_krb5.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.38% · top 68% 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: Low 2.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- ADV-2008-3428 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 33042 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 244866 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 32793 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-112908-33-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5792 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 1021390 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- solaris-kerberos-credential-dos(47291) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-515.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 33313 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2008-5661 (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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