CVE-2006-3084
The (1) ftpd and (2) ksu programs in (a) MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) up to 1.5, and 1.4.x before 1.4.4, and (b) Heimdal 0.7.2 and earlier, do not check return codes for setuid calls, which might allow local users to gain privileges by causing setuid to fail to drop privileges. NOTE: as of 20060808, it is not known whether an exploitable attack scenario exists for these issues.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (43th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-3081)
- Published
- August 9, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-3081 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- heimdal / heimdal
- mit / kerberos 5
- mit / kerberos 5
- mit / kerberos 5
- mit / kerberos 5
- mit / kerberos 5
References
- ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/heimdal/src/heimdal-0.7.2-setuid-patch.txt
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2376
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21402(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21436(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21439(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21461(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21467(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21527(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21613(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23707(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-21.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016664
- http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-001-setuid.txt
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1146
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-15.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/401660(US Government Resource)
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_20_sr.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/27871
- http://www.osvdb.org/27872
- http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2006-08-08/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442599/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443498/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19427
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-334-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3225(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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