CVE-2008-3970: Pam Mount

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pam_mount 0.10 through 0.45, when luserconf is enabled, does not verify mountpoint and source ownership before mounting a user-defined volume, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a local mount.

Affected products

• Pam Mount Pam Mount: version 0.10 only; version 0.11 only; version 0.12.2 only; version 0.13 only; version 0.15 only; version 0.16 only; …

Published 2008-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.