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ghsa-pgjg-jx8c-q35f

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:36

Modified

2022-05-24 17:36

Details

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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  "modified": "2022-05-24T17:36:55Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T17:36:55Z",
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cve-2020-27780

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-12-17 23:55

Modified

2024-08-04 16:25

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901094	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

▼

n/a

pam

Version: pam 1.5.1

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