Description
Versions of the Official Alpine Linux Docker images (since v3.3) contain a NULL password for the `root` user. This vulnerability appears to be the result of a regression introduced in December of 2015. Due to the nature of this issue, systems deployed using affected versions of the Alpine Linux container which utilize Linux PAM, or some other mechanism which uses the system shadow file as an authentication database, may accept a NULL password for the `root` user.
Published: 2019-05-08
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 3.6% Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-14628 Versions of the Official Alpine Linux Docker images (since v3.3) contain a NULL password for the `root` user. This vulnerability appears to be the result of a regression introduced in December of 2015. Due to the nature of this issue, systems deployed using affected versions of the Alpine Linux container which utilize Linux PAM, or some other mechanism which uses the system shadow file as an authentication database, may accept a NULL password for the `root` user.
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Alpinelinux Alpine Linux
F5 Big-ip Controller
Gliderlabs Docker-alpine
Opensuse Leap
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T19:40:49.199Z

Reserved: 2019-01-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-5021

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-05-08T17:29:01.490

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:44:12.227

Link: CVE-2019-5021

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