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CVE-2006-5170
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…
High7.5EPSS 4.1%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.1% · top 9.1% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (21)
- 1017153 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2006:0719 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-680 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 22682 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20061005 rPSA-2006-0183-1 nss_ldap (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 2006-0061 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXx_transferred
- 20880 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 22685 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDKSA-2006:201 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2006:027 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 22869 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 22694 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23132 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- GLSA-200612-19 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 23428 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10418 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- DSA-1203 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207286 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 22696 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4319 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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