๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-40356

MEDIUM 5.9
CVSS Score
5.9
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.22.3, there is an integer underflow and resultant out-of-bounds read 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, possibly causing the process to terminate in parse_message.

CWE CWE-191
Vendor mit
Product kerberos 5
Published Apr 28, 2026
Last Updated Apr 28, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Affected Versions

MIT / Kerberos 5
1.18 < 1.22.3

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
web.mit.edu: https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/ cems.fun: https://cems.fun/2026/04/27/krb5-two-unauthenticated-network-vulnerabilities.html github.com: https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/2e75f0d9362fb979f5fc92829431a590a130929f