VulnerabilityPublished 9 Nov 2026

CVE-2026-112323: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Source CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High.

Data as of 9 Nov 2026, 19:07 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

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CNA (redhat)	CVSS 3.1	7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 9 Nov 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 9 Nov 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponized: A Metasploit exploit module or Exploit-DB entry exists (Metasploit scanner modules do not count), or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

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Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10krb5	Affected–	Fixed in–
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6krb5	Affected–	Fixed in–
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7krb5	Affected–	Fixed in–
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8krb5	Affected–	Fixed in–
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9krb5	Affected–	Fixed in–
Red Hat Hardened Imageskrb5	Affected–	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Red Hat recommends restricting network access to the kadmind service to trusted hosts only or disabling kadmind in favor of the kadmin.local command line tool for administrative operations where possible. Since kadmind is not enabled by default, disabling or limiting access effectively mitigates the risk.

Description

CVE-2026-112323 is a denial of service vulnerability in the AUTH_GSSAPI handler of MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) versions 1.5.2 and later. Remote attackers can cause memory exhaustion in the kadmind service by sending repeated failed AUTH_GSSAPI_INIT requests, which allocate client state that is only freed after a 15-minute timeout. This allows attackers to accumulate memory faster than it is reclaimed, potentially causing service disruption. The kadmind service is not enabled by default on standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux installations and is typically confined to Kerberos Key Distribution Center environments.

Impact

An unauthenticated remote attacker can cause sustained memory exhaustion leading to denial of service on the kadmind administrative endpoint. This can disrupt Kerberos administration services but does not impact data confidentiality or integrity. The kadmind service is not enabled by default on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, limiting exposure to environments where it is explicitly enabled and accessible.

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