CVE-2009-0360

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-02-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: 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 products

Eyrie Pam-Krb5: through 3.12; 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 (+13)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/33914
http://secunia.com/advisories/33917
http://secunia.com/advisories/34260
http://secunia.com/advisories/34449
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-39.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021711
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-252767-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-070.htm
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1721
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/pam-krb5/security/2009-02-11.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500892/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33740

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