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CVE-2022-41916
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-11-15T23:15:27.197 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:04:03.423

Summary

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.

Affected products

heimdal_project — heimdal

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