Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2011-4122. PoCs published by IKCE.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a local privilege escalation vulnerability in OpenPAM by abusing the `kcheckpass` binary's handling of user-provided service arguments. It creates a malicious PAM module and service file to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges.
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in openpam_configure.c in OpenPAM before r478 on FreeBSD 8.1 allows local users to load arbitrary DSOs and gain privileges via a .. (dot dot) in the service_name argument to the pam_start function, as demonstrated by a .. in the -c option to kcheckpass.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a local privilege escalation vulnerability in OpenPAM by abusing the `kcheckpass` binary's handling of user-provided service arguments. It creates a malicious PAM module and service file to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges.