CVE-2024-26461 (GCVE-0-2024-26461)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-26 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-14 15:15
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21.2 contains a memory leak vulnerability in /krb5/src/lib/gssapi/krb5/k5sealv3.c.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-14 15:09 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mit | kerberos_5 |
Affected:
1.21.2
cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.21.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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