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High 7.5Published May 23, 2026
CVE-2026-48829In GNU SASL before 2.2.3, DIGEST-MD5 has a NULL pointer dereference affecting both clients and servers, via a known token with no accompanying = character.
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In GNU SASL before 2.2.3, DIGEST-MD5 has a NULL pointer dereference affecting both clients and servers, via a known token with no accompanying = character. This occurs in lib/digest-md5/getsubopt.c.
- CVSS
- 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-476
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- mitre
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Jun 5, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
GNU GNU SASL gnu:sasl (from the name) | before 2.2.3 | CNA record |
References
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gsasl/2026-05/msg00002.html
- https://codeberg.org/gsasl/gsasl/commit/da9b5ae2962b014879e4a406c3b38f25aa70e97a
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00182.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gsasl/2026-05/msg00000.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/06/msg00007.html
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