Skip to content
CVE Tracker
  • Newest CVEsPage
  • Recently added to KEVPage
  • Rising exploitation (EPSS)Page
  • Weekly digestPage
  • StatisticsPage
  • WatchlistPage
  • API documentationPage
  • MCP serverPage
  • Data sourcesPage
  • ChangelogPage
  • AboutPage
  • How it's builtPage
Back

CVE-2018-17953

pam_access does not handle netmask matches correctly

High7.5EPSS 1.3%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
microfocus

Description

A incorrect variable in a SUSE specific patch for pam_access rule matching in PAM 1.3.0 in openSUSE Leap 15.0 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 could lead to pam_access rules not being applied (fail open).

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2018-17953, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
microfocusCNA (assigner)3.0High7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVDNVD · Modified3.0High8.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
Loading the EPSS history…

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

Affected products

  • SUSE · pam

    • affected 1.3.0 – < 1.3.0 before 2018-11-30

References (1)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

Badge for a README or a ticket

CVE-2018-17953 badge
[![CVE-2018-17953](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2018-17953.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2018-17953)

Record last updated .