CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-16729
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
pam-python before 1.0.7-1 has an issue in regard to the default environment variable handling of Python, which could allow for local root escalation in certain PAM setups.
Affected configurations
• pam-python project pam-python (< 1.0.7-1)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
References
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150510#c1 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/pam-python/code/ci/0247ab687b4347cc52859ca461fb0126dd7e2ebe/ Patch
- https://tracker.debian.org/news/1066790/accepted-pam-python-107-1-source-amd64-all-into-unstable/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4552-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4552-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4555 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150510#c1 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/pam-python/code/ci/0247ab687b4347cc52859ca461fb0126dd7e2ebe/ Patch
- https://tracker.debian.org/news/1066790/accepted-pam-python-107-1-source-amd64-all-into-unstable/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4552-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4552-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4555 Third Party Advisory