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[krbdev.mit.edu #9252] git commit

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson via RT)
Mon Nov 9 12:03:00 2026

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Enforce lockdown bit in password change server

In schpw_util_wrapper(), reject password changes when the lockdown bit
is set on the target principal.  Discovered by Claude and Ada Logics.

CVE-2026-107884:

In MIT krb5 release 1.15 and later, a client with kadmin
administrative privileges can bypass the lockdown_keys attribute by
using the password change protocol instead of the kadmin protocol.

(cherry picked from commit d8248074bbd5c87d6415cba5dbb604a668197e28)

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/2515fb5d3d8eb3577ea60cd14d7216c654718597
Author: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Commit: 2515fb5d3d8eb3577ea60cd14d7216c654718597
Branch: krb5-1.22
 src/kadmin/server/misc.c  | 28 +++++++++++++++++++---------
 src/kadmin/server/schpw.c |  1 +
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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