Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2009-0360. PoCs published by Jon Oberheide.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages CVE-2009-0360 to escalate privileges locally by manipulating Kerberos configuration files and launching a fake KDC. It abuses pam-krb5's improper initialization to trick setuid applications into granting root access.
Description
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.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages CVE-2009-0360 to escalate privileges locally by manipulating Kerberos configuration files and launching a fake KDC. It abuses pam-krb5's improper initialization to trick setuid applications into granting root access.