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CVE-2009-3589

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-10-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

incron 0.5.5 does not initialize supplementary groups when running a process from a user's incrontabs, which causes the process to be run with the incrond supplementary groups and allows local users to gain privileges via an incrontab table.

Affected products

• Inotify Incron: 0.5.5

References

• http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=134880
• https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/incron-0.5.5-2.el5
• http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=134880
• https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/incron-0.5.5-2.el5

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