CVE-2020-27780
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 2.0%
exploitation probability
2.0%top 20% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in Linux-Pam in versions prior to 1.5.1 in the way it handle empty passwords for non-existing users. When the user doesn't exist PAM try to authenticate with root and in the case of an empty password it successfully authenticate.
Affected products
n/a · pam