CVE-2009-0360

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-8303 local linux verified

Jon Oberheide · 2009-03-29

pam-krb5 < 3.13 - Local Privilege Escalation

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.13-2`
sid	Fixed	`3.13-2`
forky	Fixed	`3.13-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.13-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.13-2`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-0360

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.