CVE-2016-10151

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10151
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10151.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-10151
Downstream
Published
2017-03-01T20:59:00.160Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:43:11.285624Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The hesiodinit function in lib/hesiod.c in Hesiod 3.2.1 compares EUID with UID to determine whether to use configurations from environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) HESIODCONFIG or (2) HES_DOMAIN environment variable and leveraging certain SUID/SGUID binary.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/achernya/hesiod

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/achernya/hesiod
Events
Introduced
30fa0206c7b1cdae5cd7200cdf1feb03838cf3af
Last affected
30fa0206c7b1cdae5cd7200cdf1feb03838cf3af
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hesiod_project:hesiod:3.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.2.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.2.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

3.*
3.2.1
hesiod-3.*
hesiod-3.2.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10151.json"