CVE-2026-31979CWE-59

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

High · published March 11, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00197 · 9.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-59 · Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Published
2026-03-11T19:47Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 MAR 19:47Z
    himmelblaud-tasks: local privilege escalation via /tmp symlink attack on Kerberos ccache
    cvelistv5