kohsuke/libpam4j · Security
Improper Input Validation in libpam4j
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-x9rg-q5fx-fx66
- CVE ID
- CVE-2017-12197
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Description
It was found that libpam4j prior to 1.10 did not properly validate user accounts when authenticating. A user with a valid password for a disabled account would be able to bypass security restrictions and possibly access sensitive information.
CWEs
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12197 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2904 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2905 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2906 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1503103 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00008.html ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4025 ↗
- https://github.com/kohsuke/libpam4j/issues/18 ↗
- https://github.com/kohsuke/libpam4j/commit/02ffdff218283629ba4a902e7fe2fd44646abc21 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x9rg-q5fx-fx66 ↗