CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-1601
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
yast2-users before 3.1.47, as used in SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1, does not properly set empty password fields in /etc/shadow during an AutoYaST installation when the profile does not contain inst-sys users, which might allow attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.
Affected configurations
• suse yast2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00051.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974220 bugzilla.suse.com
- https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/388020 build.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00051.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974220 bugzilla.suse.com
- https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/388020 build.opensuse.org