Security Advisory

CVE-2020-27780

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-12-17 23:55:45

Last updated 2024-08-04 16:25:42

Assigner redhat

State 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 doesnt exist PAM try to authenticate with root and in the case of an empty password it successfully authenticate.

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