Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 11, 2026· Updated Mar 11, 2026
himmelblaud-tasks: local privilege escalation via /tmp symlink attack on Kerberos ccache
CVE-2026-31979
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_ 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
7prior to 3.1.0 and 2.3.8+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: prior to 3.1.0 and 2.3.8
- (no CPE)range: >= 1.0.0, < 2.3.8
- osv-coords5 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/himmelblau&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/himmelblau&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/himmelblau&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/himmelblau&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2016.0pkg:rpm/suse/himmelblau&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20applications%2016.0
< 2.3.8+git0.dec3693-160000.1.1+ 4 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.8+git0.dec3693-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.8+git0.dec3693-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.9+git0.a9fd29b-150700.3.15.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.8+git0.dec3693-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.8+git0.dec3693-160000.1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- github.com/himmelblau-idm/himmelblau/security/advisories/GHSA-44wm-q286-ghq3mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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