CVE-2009-0361

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-02-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Russ Allbery pam-krb5 before 3.13, as used by libpam-heimdal, su in Solaris 10, and other software, does not properly handle calls to pam_setcred when running setuid, which allows local users to overwrite and change the ownership of arbitrary files by setting the KRB5CCNAME environment variable, and then launching a setuid application that performs certain pam_setcred operations.

Affected products

Eyrie Pam-Krb5: through 3.12; 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 (+6)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/33914
http://secunia.com/advisories/33917
http://secunia.com/advisories/33918
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.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1722
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/pam-krb5/security/2009-02-11.html

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