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CVE-2009-0579

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Date: April 16, 2009

Linux-PAM before 1.0.4 does not enforce the minimum password age (MINDAYS) as specified in /etc/shadow, which allows local users to bypass intended security policy and change their passwords sooner than specified.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (10)

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00398.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34733
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00420.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0579
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487216
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2009-0579
https://www.redhat.com/archives/pam-list/2009-March/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34728
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514437
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2009-0579

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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