CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1147

7.2 HIGH Published 2001-10-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-10-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV: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.

Affected configurations

• andries brouwer util-linux 2.10s • andries brouwer util-linux 2.11f • andries brouwer util-linux 2.11h • andries brouwer util-linux 2.11i • andries brouwer util-linux 2.11k

References