CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-107778

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.42%

35th percentile - higher than 35% of all known CVEs

Summary

MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) through 1.22.2 contains a NULL pointer dereference in make_cred_list() in rd_cred.c that allows authenticated Kerberos clients to crash services by sending mismatched KRB-CRED arrays. Attackers can send forwarded credentials with more tickets than ticket_info entries through gss_accept_sec_context() to crash GSS-API acceptor services, causing denial of service.

Risk Assessment

An authenticated attacker can remotely crash services using GSS-API, causing denial of service and disrupting applications that rely on Kerberos.

Recommendation

Update MIT Kerberos 5 to a version containing the fix or restrict access to GSS-API services to trusted clients only.

Other vulnerabilities in MIT Kerberos 5

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Original NVD description (English source)

MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) through 1.22.2 contains a NULL pointer dereference in make_cred_list() in rd_cred.c that allows authenticated Kerberos clients to crash services by sending mismatched KRB-CRED arrays. Attackers can send forwarded credentials with more tickets than ticket_info entries through gss_accept_sec_context() to crash GSS-API acceptor services, causing denial of service.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS