Security Advisory

CVE-2001-1175

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2002-06-25 04:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-08 04:44:08

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

vipw in the util-linux package before 2.10 causes /etc/shadow to be world-readable in some cases, which would make it easier for local users to perform brute force password guessing.

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