HIGH 7.5 NVD

CVE-2026-119079

decode_sequence_of() in lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.11 and later grows the decoded element array one entry at a time, which allo

decode_sequence_of() in lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.11 and later grows the decoded element array one entry at a time, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption in the KDC) by sending an unauthenticated AS-REQ or TGS-REQ with a large number of elements in a SEQUENCE OF field over TCP.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-119079
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2479231

Published: 2026-11-09 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-11-10

This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5 was published on 2026-11-09 via NVD.

vulnfeed aggregates 17092 vulnerabilities from NVD, CISA KEV, Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Kubernetes, Exploit-DB, OSS-Security, GitHub and OpenStack — updated every 4 hours.