A flaw was found in Linux-Pam in versions prior to 1.5.1 in the way it handle empty passwords for non-existing users. When the user doesn't exist PAM try to authenticate with root and in the case of an empty password it successfully authenticate.
References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901094 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2020-12-17T23:55:45

Updated: 2020-12-17T23:55:45

Reserved: 2020-10-27T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2020-27780

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-12-18T00:15:14.330

Modified: 2020-12-28T19:11:29.983


Link: CVE-2020-27780

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