VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2007-1216

CVSS score9 HIGH
EPSS probability9.88%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2007-04-06
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Double free vulnerability in the GSS-API library (lib/gssapi/krb5/k5unseal.c), as used by the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) in MIT krb5 before 1.6.1, when used with the authentication method provided by the RPCSEC_GSS RPC library, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code and modify the Kerberos key database via a message with an "an invalid direction encoding".

Weakness classification

  • CWE-415: Double Free

Primary references