CVE-2005-2977 in PAM

Summary

The SELinux version of PAM before 0.78 r3 allows local users to perform brute force password guessing attacks via unix_chkpwd, which does not log failed guesses or delay its responses.

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• Reservation: 09/19/2005
• Disclosure: 11/01/2005
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-1841
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-307 (Unconfirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 5.3
• EPSS: 0.00076
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2977
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2977
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2005-2977/