CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0388

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2003-07-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-07-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

pam_wheel in Linux-PAM 0.78, with the trust option enabled and the use_uid option disabled, allows local users to spoof log entries and gain privileges by causing getlogin() to return a spoofed user name.

Affected configurations

• andrew morgan linux pam (<= 0.77)

References