CVE-2024-26461HighMicrosoft CVSS 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Microsoft security update for CVE-2024-26461

Published
May 31, 2026
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products3

  • azl3 krb5 1.21.2-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 krb5 1.21.3-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • cbl2 krb5 1.19.4-3 on CBL Mariner 2.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update

1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update1.21.3-1

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-26461

EchelonGraph score
7.5 HIGH
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21.2 contains a memory leak vulnerability in /krb5/src/lib/gssapi/krb5/k5sealv3.c.

Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-26461, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)