CVE-2020-27780

Name
CVE-2020-27780
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.
NVD Severity
high
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901094

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:linux-pam:linux-pam:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* linux-pam >= 1.5.0 < 1.5.1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
linux-pam edge-main 1.5.1-r0 Rasmus Thomsen <oss@cogitri.dev> fixed
linux-pam edge-main 1.5.1 None fixed
linux-pam 3.22-main 1.5.1-r0 None fixed
linux-pam 3.21-main 1.5.1-r0 None fixed
linux-pam 3.20-main 1.5.1-r0 None fixed
linux-pam 3.19-main 1.5.1-r0 None fixed
linux-pam 3.18-main 1.5.1-r0 None fixed
linux-pam 3.17-main 1.5.1-r0 None fixed