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