CVE-2009-0579

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-04-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Linux-PAM before 1.0.4 does not enforce the minimum password age (MINDAYS) as specified in /etc/shadow, which allows local users to bypass intended security policy and change their passwords sooner than specified.

Affected products

Linux-PAM: through 1.0.4; 0.99.1.0, 0.99.2.0, 0.99.2.1, 0.99.3.0, 0.99.4.0, 0.99.5.0 (+14)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514437
http://secunia.com/advisories/34728
http://secunia.com/advisories/34733
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487216
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00398.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00420.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/pam-list/2009-March/msg00006.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514437
http://secunia.com/advisories/34728
http://secunia.com/advisories/34733
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487216
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00398.html

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