{"id":"CVE-2009-3589","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2009-3589","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:38:49.972Z","title":"incron 0.5.5 does not initialize supplementary groups when running a process from a user's incrontabs, which causes the process to be run with the incrond supplementary groups and allows local users to gain privileges via an incrontab table.","description":"incron 0.5.5 does not initialize supplementary groups when running a process from a user's incrontabs, which causes the process to be run with the incrond supplementary groups and allows local users to gain privileges via an incrontab table.","published":"2009-10-08T15:30:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:11:58.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.6,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["inotify/incron"],"epss":{"score":0.00298,"percentile":0.22256,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.30%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=134880","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/incron-0.5.5-2.el5","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=134880","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/incron-0.5.5-2.el5","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3589","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}