Improper Authentication Affecting libpam-krb5 package, versions <3.13-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.04% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-LIBPAMKRB5-5684987
  • published13 Feb 2009
  • disclosed13 Feb 2009

Introduced: 13 Feb 2009

CVE-2009-0360  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 libpam-krb5 to version 3.13-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpam-krb5 package and not the libpam-krb5 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1