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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

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 18, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Critical

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-27780

GHSA ID

GHSA-pgjg-jx8c-q35f

Source code

No known source code

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