Improper Authentication Affecting freebsd package, versions [,9.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.06% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2382921
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Feb 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Feb 2020

CVE-2014-3879  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freebsd to version 9.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. OpenPAM Nummularia 9.2 through 10.0 does not properly handle the error reported when an include directive refers to a policy that does not exist, which causes the loaded policy chain to no be discarded and allows context-dependent attackers to bypass authentication via a login (1) without a password or (2) with an incorrect password.

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