Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-5659 - Local Security vulnerability in Pam Extern
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 |