CVE-2020-27678

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CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

EPSS

1%p72

Published

Oct 26, 2020 (Oct 26, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in illumos before 2020-10-22, as used in OmniOS before r151030by, r151032ay, and r151034y and SmartOS before 20201022. There is a buffer overflow in parse_user_name in lib/libpam/pam_framework.c.

Vendors: illumos joyent omniosce
Products: illumos, smartos, omnios
Weakness: CWE-120
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.4%)

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