Improper Authentication Affecting neutrinolabs/xrdp package, versions [,0.9.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.19% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NEUTRINOLABSXRDP-2366085
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6967  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for neutrinolabs/xrdp.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication xrdp 0.9.1 calls the PAM function auth_start_session() in an incorrect location, leading to PAM session modules not being properly initialized, with a potential consequence of incorrect configurations or elevation of privileges, aka a pam_limits.so bypass.

CVSS Scores

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