CVE-2006-5659: Pam Extern

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PAM_extern before 0.2 sends a password as a command line argument, which allows local users to obtain the password by listing the command line arguments, such as ps. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Affected products

• Pam Extern Pam Extern: up to and including 0.1

Published 2006-11-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.