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CVE-2009-0360

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-287 Authentication Issues
Publication date:
13/02/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.20 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
6.20
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.12 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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