Riskcovery

CVE-2020-27780

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 17, 2020
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Oct 27, 2020

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Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
pamn/a
  • pam 1.5.1Affected

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