National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3970
Original release date:09/11/2008
Last revised:08/19/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
pam_mount 0.10 through 0.45, when luserconf is enabled, does not verify mountpoint and source ownership before mounting a user-defined volume, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a local mount.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: XF
Name: pammount-luserconf-privilege-escalation(44960)
External Source: BID
Name: 31041
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080909 Re: CVE request: pam_mount < 0.47 missing security checks
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080906 CVE request: pam_mount < 0.47 missing security checks
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:208
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=624240
External Source: MLIST
Name: [pam-mount-user] 20080905 pam_mount 0.47 released
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:019
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://dev.medozas.de/gitweb.cgi?p=pam_mount;a=commitdiff;h=33b91d7659ae3aa78b1e94fd3f8e545ae5ff25db