A flaw was found in Linux-Pam in versions prior to 1.5.1...
Critical severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 29, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Dec 18, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Last updated
Jan 29, 2023
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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