CVE-2009-3589 Privilege escalation in n/a
Local attackers can gain privileges by exploiting missing supplementary group initialization in incron when executing user-defined tasks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2009-3589?
CVE-2009-3589 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 8 Oct 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
incron 0.5.5 does not initialize supplementary groups when running a process from a user's incrontabs, which causes the process to be run with the incrond supplementary groups and allows local users to gain privileges via an incrontab table.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-3589?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Inotify Incron.
How do I fix CVE-2009-3589?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2009-3589 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-3589 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3589, GHSA-vq38-j6m4-jpjp.