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CVE-2001-1147

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2001-10-08 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The PAM implementation in /bin/login of the util-linux package before 2.11 causes a password entry to be rewritten across multiple PAM calls, which could provide the credentials of one user to a different user, when used in certain PAM modules such as pam_limits.

Affected Platforms

Andries Brouwer Util-Linux

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References