CVE-2022-41916

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CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

EPSS

<1%p59

Published

Nov 15, 2022 (Nov 15, 2022)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Heimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. Versions prior to 7.7.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Heimdal's PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdal's libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Vendors: heimdal project debian
Products: heimdal, debian linux
Weakness: CWE-193
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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