CVE-2014-3879: Freebsd

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenPAM Nummularia 9.2 through 10.0 does not properly handle the error reported when an include directive refers to a policy that does not exist, which causes the loaded policy chain to no be discarded and allows context-dependent attackers to bypass authentication via a login (1) without a password or (2) with an incorrect password.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: up to and including 9.2

Published 2020-02-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.