CVE-2026-40355

· NIST NVD ↗

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.

MEDIUM
CVSS severity
5.9
CVSS base score
2026-04-28
Published

CWE codes

CWE-476

Sources