CVE-2020-27780
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 0.44%Published: 12/18/2020Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-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.
Affected packages (1)
- Alpine/linux-pamfrom 0, < 1.5.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |