VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-5170

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability4.07%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-10-10
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

pam_ldap in nss_ldap on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Fedora Core 3 and earlier, and possibly other distributions does not return an error condition when an LDAP directory server responds with a PasswordPolicyResponse control response, which causes the pam_authenticate function to return a success code even if authentication has failed, as originally reported for xscreensaver.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-755: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Primary references