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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-34397 EUVD-2026-17983

himmelblau: NSS fake-primary group lookup reintroduces name collision risk

Published Apr 1, 2026 · Updated Apr 4, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Himmelblau is an interoperability suite for Microsoft Azure Entra ID and Intune. From versions 2.0.0-alpha to before 2.3.9 and 3.0.0-alpha to before 3.1.1, there is a conditional local privilege escalation vulnerability in an edge-case naming collision. Only authenticated himmelblau users whose mapped CN/short name exactly matches a privileged local group name (e.g., "sudo", "wheel", "docker", "adm") can cause the NSS module to resolve that group name to their fake primary group. If the system uses NSS results for group-based authorization decisions (sudo, polkit, etc.), this can grant the attacker the privileges of that group. This issue has been patched in versions 2.3.9 and 3.1.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
himmelblau-idm himmelblau >= 2.0.0-alpha, < 2.3.9, >= 3.0.0-alpha, < 3.1.1 —

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
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed himmelblau 2.3.9+git0.a9fd29b-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10483-1

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