CVE-2003-0388: Andrew Morgan Linux Pam

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pam_wheel in Linux-PAM 0.78, with the trust option enabled and the use_uid option disabled, allows local users to spoof log entries and gain privileges by causing getlogin() to return a spoofed user name.

Affected products

• Andrew Morgan Linux Pam: up to and including 0.77

Published 2003-07-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.