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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-31979 EUVD-2026-11332

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

Published Mar 11, 2026 · Updated Mar 11, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
himmelblau-idm himmelblau >= 1.0.0, < 2.3.8, >= 3.0.0-alpha, < 3.1.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 himmelblau 2.3.9+git0.a9fd29b-150700.3.15.1 SUSE-SU-2026:1361-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 himmelblau 2.3.8+git0.dec3693-160000.1.1 SUSE-FU-2026:20990-1
SLES 16.0 himmelblau 2.3.8+git0.dec3693-160000.1.1 SUSE-FU-2026:20990-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed himmelblau 2.3.8+git0.dec3693-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10328-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 himmelblau 2.3.8+git0.dec3693-160000.1.1 openSUSE-FU-2026:20453-1

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