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redhat/pamA flaw was found in Linux-Pam in versions prior to 1.5.1 in the way it handle empty passwords for no…

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A flaw was found in Linux-Pam 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.

Reference: https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/issues/284

Upstream patch: https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/pull/300

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
CVE-2020-27780

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