ALPINE-CVE-2022-41916

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CVE-2022-41916
Published: 15 Nov 2022, 23:15
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:50

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

15 Nov 2022, 23:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:50
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•heimdal

    < 7.7.1-r0 | < 7.7.1-r0 | < 7.7.1-r0 | < 7.7.1-r0 | < 7.7.1-r0 | < 7.7.1-r0 | < 7.7.1-r0 | < 7.7.1-r0 | < 7.7.1-r0 | < 7.7.1-r0

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