CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1459

7.5 HIGH Published 2001-06-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-06-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

OpenSSH 2.9 and earlier does not initiate a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) session if commands are executed with no pty, which allows local users to bypass resource limits (rlimits) set in pam.d.

Affected configurations

• openbsd openssh 2.1 • openbsd openssh 2.1.1 • openbsd openssh 2.2 • openbsd openssh 2.3 • openbsd openssh 2.5 • openbsd openssh 2.5.1 • openbsd openssh 2.5.2 • openbsd openssh 2.9

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