CVE-2002-1227: Pam

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PAM 0.76 treats a disabled password as if it were an empty (null) password, which allows local and remote attackers to gain privileges as disabled users.

Affected products

• Pam Pam: version 0.76 only

Published 2002-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.