CVE-2017-12197

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12197
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12197.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12197
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2018-01-18T21:29:00.203Z
Modified
2026-04-16T01:48:08.901229041Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

It was found that libpam4j up to and including 1.8 did not properly validate user accounts when authenticating. A user with a valid password for a disabled account would be able to bypass security restrictions and possibly access sensitive information.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "6.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/kohsuke/libpam4j

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/kohsuke/libpam4j
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
b4a4cb04a79cdc629ec43421e95c498239c08ff6
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.8"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libpam4j_project:libpam4j:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

libpam4j-1.*
libpam4j-1.5
libpam4j-1.6
libpam4j-1.7
libpam4j-1.8

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12197.json"