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HIGHCVE-2026-31979Published Modified CNA GitHub_M

CVE-2026-31979: himmelblaud-tasks: local privilege escalation via /tmp symlink attack on Kerberos ccache

Himmelblau is an interoperability suite for Microsoft Azure Entra ID and Intune. Prior to 3.1.0 and 2.3.8, the himmelblaud-tasks daemon, running as root, writes Kerberos cache files under /tmp/krb5cc_<uid> without symlink protections. Since commit 87a51ee, PrivateTmp is explicitly removed from the tasks daemon's systemd hardening, exposing it to the host /tmp. A local user can exploit this via symlink attacks to chown or overwrite arbitrary files, achieving local privilege escalation. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.1.0 and 2.3.8.

Metrics

CVSS v3.1
8.8
Severity
HIGH
Fixed in
Affected Products
1
Affected packages
  • himmelblau-idm / himmelblau
    >= 1.0.0, < 2.3.8 · >= 3.0.0-alpha, < 3.1.0
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H