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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2020-12-17T23:55:45

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:25:42.438Z

Reserved: 2020-10-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-27780

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-12-18T00:15:14.330

Modified: 2020-12-28T19:11:29.983

Link: CVE-2020-27780

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-27780 - Bugzilla