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CVE-2003-0388

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2003-07-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

pam_wheel in Linux-PAM 0.78, with the trust option enabled and the use_uid option disabled, allows local users to spoof log entries and gain privileges by causing getlogin() to return a spoofed user name.

Affected products

• Andrew Morgan Linux Pam: through 0.77

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105577915506761&w=2
• http://www.idefense.com/advisory/06.16.03.txt
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-304.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105577915506761&w=2
• http://www.idefense.com/advisory/06.16.03.txt
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-304.html

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