CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.0. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2007-5972
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
9
EPSS
2.68%
Original NVD 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.