CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2949

7.5 HIGH Published 2005-09-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-09-16
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

pam_per_user before 0.4 does not verify if the user name changes between authentication attempts and uses the same subrequest handle, which allows remote attackers or local users to login as other users by using certain applications that allow the username to be changed during authentication, such as /bin/login.

Affected configurations

• mark d. roth pam per user 0.1 • mark d. roth pam per user 0.2 • mark d. roth pam per user 0.3

References