CVE-2016-2860
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
Description
The newEntry function in ptserver/ptprocs.c in OpenAFS before 1.6.17 allows remote authenticated users from foreign Kerberos realms to bypass intended access restrictions and create arbitrary groups as administrators by leveraging mishandling of the creator ID.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Mixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.6.17-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.6.17-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.6.17-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.6.17-1 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| openafs | openafs | {"endIncluding":"1.6.16"} | |
References
- http://git.openafs.org/?p=openafs.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=396240cf070a806b91fea81131d034e1399af1e0
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3569
- http://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2016-001.txt
- https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2016/000496.html
- https://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.17/RELNOTES-1.6.17
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2860
CWEs
CWE-284
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.