6.2 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
10.1%
pam_krb5 is a a Kerberos v5 PAM module.
The following vulnerabilities were discovered:
A local attacker could set an environment variable to point to a specially crafted Kerberos configuration file and launch a PAM-based setuid application to elevate privileges, or change ownership and overwrite arbitrary files.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All pam_krb5 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-auth/pam_krb5-3.12"
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gentoo | any | all | sys-auth/pam_krb5 | <Β 3.12 | UNKNOWN |