MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-112323 (CVSS 7.5)
NVD · officialPublished Nov 9, 2026Risk 23/100
The AUTH_GSSAPI handler in lib/rpc/svc_auth_gssapi.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5.2 and later allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion in kadmind) by sending repeated failed AUTH_GSSAPI_INIT requests. Each failed request allocates client state that is only freed after a 15-minute expiration timeout, allowing an attacker to accumulate memory faster than it is reclaimed.
Technical details
CVSS
7.5
AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:NoneC:NoneI:NoneA:High
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