CVE-2001-1459

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

OpenSSH 2.9 and earlier does not initiate a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) session if commands are executed with no pty, which allows local users to bypass resource limits (rlimits) set in pam.d.

OpenSSH 2.9 and earlier does not initiate a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) session if commands are executed with no pty, which allows local users to bypass resource limits (rlimits) set in pam.d.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

OpenBSD OpenSSH

First reported 23 years ago

2001-06-19 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

OpenBSD OpenSSH 2.1

2.1

OpenBSD OpenSSH 2.1.1

2.1.1

OpenBSD OpenSSH 2.2

2.2

OpenBSD OpenSSH 2.3

2.3

OpenBSD OpenSSH 2.5

2.5

OpenBSD OpenSSH 2.5.1

2.5.1

OpenBSD OpenSSH 2.5.2

2.5.2

OpenBSD OpenSSH 2.9

2.9

References

20010619 pam session

VU#797027

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

2917

Vendor Advisory

openssh-rsh-bypass-pam(6757)

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