CVE-2026-40355

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40355
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-40355.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-40355
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-04-28T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-07-16T03:31:02.118710262Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.22.3, there is a NULL pointer dereference if an application calls gssacceptseccontext() 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 parsenego_message.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "mitre",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-476"
    ],
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "1.18"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "1.22.3"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "1.18"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "1.22.3"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "DESCRIPTION",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "1.22.3"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/40xxx/CVE-2026-40355.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/krb5/krb5

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/krb5/krb5
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
2e75f0d9362fb979f5fc92829431a590a130929f
Database specific 
{
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.18.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.22.2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-40355.json"