CVE-2026-112320

Discovered by AISLEPUBLISHEDCWE-772

Description

The GSS-RPC transport layer in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.4 and later does not release the previous authentication context when a client switches from an RPCSEC_GSS or AUTH_GSSAPI flavor to a non-GSS flavor on the same TCP connection. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion in kadmind) by repeatedly establishing and abandoning GSS authentication contexts.

CVSS Base Scores

CVSS v3.1(Primary)
7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersionStatus
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 10——
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6——
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7——
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8——
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9——
Red HatRed Hat Hardened Images——

Credits

  • This issue was discovered by Found by AISLE in partnership with Red Hat.

References