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CVE-2022-41916

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9 EPSS 0.89% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2022-11-15 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2022-41916
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.9
EPSS
0.89%

Original NVD 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.