PAM Environment Variable Injection

PAM pamenv.so module allows environment variable injection via /.pamenvironment leading to privilege escalation through SystemD session manipulation. This scripts gauges exploitability...

openssh: privilege escalation via user's PAM environment and UseLogin=yes

It was discovered that the OpenSSH sshd daemon fetched PAM environment settings before running the login program. In configurations with UseLogin=yes and the pamenv PAM module configured to read user environment settings, a local user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as root...

PT-2010-1042 · Linux +1 · Linux-Pam +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux-PAM versions prior to 1.1.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux pam-devel version 1.1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux pam-debuginfo version 1.1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux pam version 1.1.1 Description: The issue concerns multiple vulnerabilities in the...