{"id":"CVE-2011-3628","aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2011-3628","EUVD-2011-3587","GHSA-9hgw-rg97-xh38"],"status":"published","title":"Untrusted search path vulnerability in pam_motd (aka the MOTD module) in libpam-modules before 1...","description":"Untrusted search path vulnerability in pam_motd (aka the MOTD module) in libpam-modules before 1.1.3-2ubuntu2.1 on Ubuntu 11.10, before 1.1.2-2ubuntu8.4 on Ubuntu 11.04, before 1.1.1-4ubuntu2.4 on Ubuntu 10.10, before 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and before 0.99.7.1-5ubuntu6.5 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, when using certain configurations such as \"session optional pam_motd.so\", allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the PATH environment variable to reference a malicious command, as demonstrated via 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