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CVE-2022-41916

Published: Nov 15, 2022

Modified: Apr 23, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.9

MEDIUM

Description

Heimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. Versions prior to 7.7.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Heimdal's PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdal's libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

VendorProductVersions

heimdal

heimdal

affected
< 7.7.1

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-193

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

References

DSA-5287
vendor-advisory
GLSA-202310-06
vendor-advisory

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