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CVE-2009-0360

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-0360 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Russ Allbery pam-krb5 versions prior to 3.13, specifically when linked against MIT Kerberos. An attacker can exploit this by manipulating an environment variable to point to a malicious Kerberos configuration file, then executing a PAM-based setuid application. With a CVSS score of 6.2 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability requires local access and high attack complexity but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV or Hot List, and with no reported active exploitation, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB (EDB-8303). Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eyrie:pam-krb5:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.2MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-8303 · Mar 29, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0069 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-0360

CVE-2009-0360

References

secunia.com / advisories/33914
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/33917
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34260
secunia.com / advisories/34449
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200903-39.xml
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5669
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5732
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-070.htm
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1721
eyrie.org / ~eagle/software/pam-krb5/security/2009-02-11.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/500892/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/33740
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-719-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0410
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0426
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0979