PT-2009-5871 · Incron · Incron

Published 2009-10-08 · Updated 2009-10-08 · CVE-2009-3589

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions incron version 0.5.5

Description The issue is related to the initialization of supplementary groups when running a process from a user's incrontabs. This causes the process to be run with the incrond supplementary groups, allowing local users to gain privileges via an incrontab table.

Recommendations For incron version 0.5.5, update to a newer version that initializes supplementary groups correctly when running processes from user incrontabs.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-3589

Affected Products

Incron

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-3589 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3589 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3589 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3589 · Vendor Advisory
• http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=134880 · Patch
• https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/incron-0.5.5-2.el5 · Note