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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EUVD |
EUVD-2020-20284 | 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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-04T16:25:42.438Z
Reserved: 2020-10-27T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-27780
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Status : Modified
Published: 2020-12-18T00:15:14.330
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:21:49.307
Link: CVE-2020-27780
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