CVE-2014-3879

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-02-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

OpenPAM Nummularia 9.2 through 10.0 does not properly handle the error reported when an include directive refers to a policy that does not exist, which causes the loaded policy chain to no be discarded and allows context-dependent attackers to bypass authentication via a login (1) without a password or (2) with an incorrect password.

Affected products

FreeBSD: through 9.2

References

http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:13.pam.asc
http://www.openpam.org/browser/openpam/trunk/HISTORY
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67808
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030330
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:13.pam.asc
http://www.openpam.org/browser/openpam/trunk/HISTORY
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67808
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030330

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