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high 7.5

CVE-2022-3116 json

The Heimdal Software Kerberos 5 implementation is vulnerable to a null pointer dereferance.

published 2023-03-27 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-42543

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Heimdal Software Kerberos 5 implementation is vulnerable to a null pointer dereferance. An attacker with network access to an application that depends on the vulnerable code path can cause the application to crash.

Patch / fix

  • heimdal Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 7.5.0+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
  • heimdal Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 7.7.0+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1
  • heimdal Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1.6~git20131207+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2+esm1
  • heimdal Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-3116

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • samba Azure Linux 3.0 4.18.3-1

azure linux advisories AZL-45258

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-3116 updated

heimdal: NULL pointer dereference using a crafted negTokenInit token

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
20 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • n/a Heimdal Software Kerberos

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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