CVE-2001-1147: Andries Brouwer Util-Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The PAM implementation in /bin/login of the util-linux package before 2.11 causes a password entry to be rewritten across multiple PAM calls, which could provide the credentials of one user to a different user, when used in certain PAM modules such as pam_limits.

Affected products

• Andries Brouwer Util-Linux: version 2.10s only; version 2.11f only; version 2.11h only; version 2.11i only; version 2.11k only

Published 2001-10-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.