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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | himmelblaud-tasks: local privilege escalation via /tmp symlink attack on Kerberos ccache | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-59 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-03-11T20:07:29.194Z
Reserved: 2026-03-10T15:40:10.487Z
Link: CVE-2026-31979
Updated: 2026-03-11T20:07:25.505Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-03-11T20:16:17.607
Modified: 2026-03-11T20:16:17.607
Link: CVE-2026-31979
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