Security advisory

{
  "id": "5b52338acdbaa430670984d8a4394b449d3314ccaece211d83836f8a82866f9d",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10151",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-10151",
    "summary": "The hesiod_init function in lib/hesiod.c in Hesiod 3.2.1 compares EUID with UID to determine whether to use configurations from environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) HESIOD_CONFIG or (2) HES_DOMAIN environment variable and leveraging certain SUID/SGUID binary.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-10151",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-10151",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-10151"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/achernya/hesiod",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "30fa0206c7b1cdae5cd7200cdf1feb03838cf3af"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "30fa0206c7b1cdae5cd7200cdf1feb03838cf3af"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:hesiod_project:hesiod:3.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.2.1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.2.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.2.1",
            "hesiod-3.2.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10151.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:46:30.543595047Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-01",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332508",
        "https://github.com/achernya/hesiod/pull/9"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-10151",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379327,
  "published_at": "2017-03-01T20:59:00.16+00:00"
}