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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.2

CVE-2009-0360 json

Russ Allbery pam-krb5 before 3.13, when linked against MIT Kerberos, does not properly initialize the Kerberos libraries for setuid use, wh…

published 2009-02-13 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-0364

cvss
6.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • libpam-krb5 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.13-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0360

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-8303)

Exploit prediction

0.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-8303 pam-krb5 < 3.13 - Local Privilege Escalation local, 2009-03-29

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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