VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2001-1147

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability0.43%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2001-10-08
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The PAM implementation in /bin/login of the util-linux package before 2.11 causes a password entry to be rewritten across multiple PAM calls, which could provide the credentials of one user to a different user, when used in certain PAM modules such as pam_limits.

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