CVE-2025-49012
June 05, 2025
Himmelblau is an interoperability suite for Microsoft Azure Entra ID and Intune. Himmelblau versions 0.9.0 through 0.9.14 and 1.00-alpha are vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue when Entra ID group-based access restrictions are configured using group display names instead of object IDs. Starting in version 0.9.0, Himmelblau introduced support for specifying group names in the "pam_allow_groups" configuration option. However, Microsoft Entra ID permits the creation of multiple groups with the same "displayName" via the Microsoft Graph API—even by non-admin users, depending on tenant settings. As a result, a user could create a personal group with the same name as a legitimate access group (e.g., ""Allow-Linux-Login""), add themselves to it, and be granted authentication or "sudo" rights by Himmelblau. Because affected Himmelblau versions compare group names by either "displayName" or by the immutable "objectId", this allows bypassing access control mechanisms intended to restrict login to members of official, centrally-managed groups. This issue is fixed in Himmelblau version 0.9.15 and later. In these versions, group name matching in "pam_allow_groups" has been deprecated and removed, and only group "objectId"s (GUIDs) may be specified for secure group-based filtering. To mitigate the issue without upgrading, replace all entries in "pam_allow_groups" with the objectId of the target Entra ID group(s) and/or audit your tenant for groups with duplicate display names using the Microsoft Graph API.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/himmelblau-idm/himmelblau.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=0.0.1 <0.9.15Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.9.15Additional Notes
The description of this vulnerability differs from MITRE.
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
LOW
Vulnerable System Integrity
LOW
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.4
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Improper Authentication
EPSS
Base Score:
0.09