Auth bypass in Eyrie Pam-Krb5
CVE-2009-0360
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.
Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication
EPSS: 0.007 (49.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Eyrie Pam-krb5 — versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUNALERT)
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)