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🛡️ CVE-2023-36054 — active-iq-unified-manager

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-824 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.20.2 and 1.21.x before 1.21.1 frees an uninitialized pointer. A remote authenticated user can trigger a kadmind crash. This occurs because _xdr_kadm5_principal_ent_rec does not validate the relationship between n_key_data and the key_data array count.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-36054 is classified as CWE-824: Access of Uninitialized Pointer. The product accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialized.

Affected software

CVE-2023-36054 is recorded against 7 packages.

  • active-iq-unified-manager
  • clustered-data-ontap
  • debian-linux
  • hci
  • kerberos-5
  • management-services-for-element-software
  • ontap-tools

Timeline and source

Published on 7 August 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
github.com
github.com
lists.debian.org
security.netapp.com
web.mit.edu
github.com
github.com
github.com
lists.debian.org
security.netapp.com
web.mit.edu

Other advisories for this package

active-iq-unified-manager has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-824: Access of Uninitialized Pointer) in other software:

CVE-2023-36054 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-824
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-07
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
active-iq-unified-manager
clustered-data-ontap
debian-linux
hci
kerberos-5
management-services-for-element-software
ontap-tools

References

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