CVE-2006-3742

Published Sep 6, 2006

Last updated 16 years ago

Overview

Description
The KDE PAM configuration shipped with Fedora Core 5 causes KDM passwords to be cached, which allows attackers to login without a password by attempting to log in multiple times.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
10
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Social media

Hype score
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Vendor comments

  • Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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