CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5659

2.1 LOW Published 2006-11-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-11-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

PAM_extern before 0.2 sends a password as a command line argument, which allows local users to obtain the password by listing the command line arguments, such as ps. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Affected configurations

• pam extern pam extern (<= 0.1)

References