Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-26458

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 29 February 2024

Published
29 February 2024
Modified
23 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0025 48.5th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-26458 is a medium-severity Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime (CWE-401) vulnerability in Mit Kerberos 5. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 48.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21.2 contains a memory leak in /krb5/src/lib/rpc/pmap_rmt.c.

CWE(s)
CWE-401

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

mit
kerberos 5
1.21.2
netapp
active iq unified manager
all versions
netapp
cloud volumes ontap mediator
all versions
netapp
management services for element software and netapp hci
all versions
netapp
ontap 9
all versions
netapp
ontap select deploy administration utility
all versions
netapp
h610c firmware
all versions
netapp
h610s firmware
all versions
netapp
h615c firmware
all versions

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References