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CVE-2011-4120

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CVE-2011-4120

Published: Nov 26, 2019

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Yubico PAM Module before 2.10 performed user authentication when 'use_first_pass' PAM configuration option was not used and the module was configured as 'sufficient' in the PAM configuration. A remote attacker could use this flaw to circumvent common authentication process and obtain access to the account in question by providing a NULL value (pressing Ctrl-D keyboard sequence) as the password string.

VendorProductVersions

yubico-pam

yubico-pam

affected
before 2.10

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