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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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