MUNGE is an authentication service for creating and validating user credentials. From 0.5 to 0.5.17, local attacker can exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability in munged (the MUNGE authentication daemon) to leak cryptographic key material from process memory. With the leaked key material, the attacker could forge arbitrary MUNGE credentials to impersonate any user (including root) to services that rely on MUNGE for authentication. The vulnerability allows a buffer overflow by sending a crafted message with an oversized address length field, corrupting munged's internal state and enabling extraction of the MAC subkey used for credential verification. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.5.18.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-4477-1 munge security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-6129-1 munge security update
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History

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description MUNGE is an authentication service for creating and validating user credentials. From 0.5 to 0.5.17, local attacker can exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability in munged (the MUNGE authentication daemon) to leak cryptographic key material from process memory. With the leaked key material, the attacker could forge arbitrary MUNGE credentials to impersonate any user (including root) to services that rely on MUNGE for authentication. The vulnerability allows a buffer overflow by sending a crafted message with an oversized address length field, corrupting munged's internal state and enabling extraction of the MAC subkey used for credential verification. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.5.18.
Title MUNGE has a buffer overflow in message unpacking allows key leakage and credential forgery
Weaknesses CWE-787
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-10T20:14:03.821Z

Reserved: 2026-02-02T18:21:42.486Z

Link: CVE-2026-25506

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-02-10T19:13:30.717Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-02-10T19:16:03.720

Modified: 2026-02-10T21:51:48.077

Link: CVE-2026-25506

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-02-10T21:33:21Z

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