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CVE-2020-27780

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CVE-2020-27780

Published: Dec 17, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

pam

affected
pam 1.5.1

Weaknesses (CWE)

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