Instituto Nacional de ciberseguridad. Sección Incibe
Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad. Sección INCIBE-CERT

Go to Calendar     Go to Press Room     Go to Newsletters subscription

Search

CVE-2006-5170

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
10/10/2006
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

pam_ldap in nss_ldap on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Fedora Core 3 and earlier, and possibly other distributions does not return an error condition when an LDAP directory server responds with a PasswordPolicyResponse control response, which causes the pam_authenticate function to return a success code even if authentication has failed, as originally reported for xscreensaver.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* core_3.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.0:*:linux_kernel_2.6.9:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems:4.0_s390:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems:4.0_s390x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_big_endian:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools