CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-0360

6.2 MEDIUM Published 2009-02-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-02-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

Russ Allbery pam-krb5 before 3.13, when linked against MIT Kerberos, does not properly initialize the Kerberos libraries for setuid use, which allows local users to gain privileges by pointing an environment variable to a modified Kerberos configuration file, and then launching a PAM-based setuid application.

Affected configurations

• eyrie pam-krb5 (<= 3.12) • eyrie pam-krb5 2.0 • eyrie pam-krb5 2.1 • eyrie pam-krb5 2.2 • eyrie pam-krb5 2.3 • eyrie pam-krb5 2.4 • eyrie pam-krb5 2.5 • eyrie pam-krb5 2.6 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.0 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.1 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.2 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.3 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.4 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.5 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.6 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.7 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.8 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.9 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.10 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.11

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References