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CVE-2022-3116

Published: Mar 27, 2023Updated: Feb 24, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-476
NVD MITRE
7.5CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
0.9%
Top 45.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected Products

heimdalheimdal project
On-prem
Security Products / endpoint-av-edr
РЕД ОСООО «Ред Софт»
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
HeimdalСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Heimdal Software Kerberosn/a
heimdal projectcommercialSecurity Productsaka heimdal
ооо «ред софт»commercialRUOperating Systemsaka red soft
сообщество свободного программного обеспеченияoss-projectOperating Systemsaka сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, fsf

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Impact
Initial Access
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References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230505-0010/
security.netapp.com
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/730793
kb.cert.org
https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/4fb6a6adc9d5593079e37addb40fd80834df77b4
github.com
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Timeline

Published
Mar 27, 2023
Last Updated
Feb 24, 2025

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