CVE-2016-10151: Hesiod Project Hesiod

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

Published 2017-03-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.