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CVE-2020-27780

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CVSS 3.1
9.8 critical
EPSS
2%p79
Published
()
Modified
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.

Vendors
linux-pam
Products
linux-pam
Weakness
CWE-287
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 (2.0%)

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