Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-2949 - Authentication Bypass vulnerability in Mark D. Roth PAM PER User 0.1/0.2/0.3

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
mark-d-roth

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mark_D._Roth
3