description: 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.
problem types: CWE-287
affected:
{
product: pam
vendor: n/a
versions:
status: affected, version: pam 1.5.1
}