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CVE-2016-1601

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-255

Description

yast2-users before 3.1.47, as used in SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1, does not properly set empty password fields in /etc/shadow during an AutoYaST installation when the profile does not contain inst-sys users, which might allow attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• SUSE Yast2: all versions

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00051.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00007.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974220
• https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/388020
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00051.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00007.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974220
• https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/388020

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