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CVE-2019-25018

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: February 2, 2021 at 05:23 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:31 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorKrb5-appl

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

In the rcp client in MIT krb5-appl through 1.0.3, malicious servers could bypass intended access restrictions via the filename of . or an empty filename, similar to CVE-2018-20685 and CVE-2019-7282. The impact is modifying the permissions of the target directory on the client side. NOTE: MIT krb5-appl is not supported upstream but is shipped by a few Linux distributions. The affected code was removed from the supported MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) product many years ago, at version 1.8.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Krb5-appl· Mit
95%
v ≤ 1.0.3

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131109

CVSS

7.5HIGH[email protected]
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
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