CVE-2009-2482: Netbsd

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The pam_unix module in OpenPAM in NetBSD 4.0 before 4.0.2 and 5.0 before 5.0.1 allows local users to change the current root password if it is already known, even when they are not in the wheel group.

Affected products

• Netbsd Netbsd: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.1 only; version 5.0 only

Published 2009-07-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.