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CVE-2026-40355

Published: 4/28/2026 Last updated: 7/14/2026 Reserved: 4/11/2026

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.22.3, there is a NULL pointer dereference if an application calls gss_accept_sec_context() on a system with a NegoEx mechanism registered in /etc/gss/mech. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger this, causing the process to terminate in parse_nego_message.

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 5.9 Medium CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Opam packages affected (2)

conf-gssapi krb

Products affected (2)

Product Vendor Version
Kerberos 5 MIT < 10.0.17763.2061
Kerberos 5 MIT 12.2.1.3.0

References (12)