cve-2020-27780
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-17 23:55
Modified
2024-08-04 16:25
Severity ?
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901094Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901094Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a pam Version: pam 1.5.1
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