CVE-2026-40355

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 78% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: April 28, 2026 (16 days ago)
Last Modified: April 28, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

A flaw was found in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5). An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability by calling `gss_accept_sec_context()` on a system with a NegoEx mechanism registered. This can lead to the termination of the process, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

CWE

CWE-476

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat Hardened ImagesRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 cems.fun 🔗 github.com