CVE-2020-27780 (GCVE-0-2020-27780)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-17 23:55
Modified
2024-08-04 16:25
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CWE
Summary
A flaw was found in Linux-Pam in versions prior to 1.5.1 in the way it handle empty passwords for non-existing users. When the user doesn't exist PAM try to authenticate with root and in the case of an empty password it successfully authenticate.
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