LOW
security flaw
Published Nov 1, 2005
2.1
LOWCVSS 2.0
EPSS 0.43%
Description
The SELinux version of PAM before 0.78 r3 allows local users to perform brute force password guessing attacks via unix_chkpwd, which does not log failed guesses or delay its responses.
Affected products
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
2.1 LOW NVD
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
0.43% 0.00428
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.00428
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (11 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.43% (0.00428) | 34.76th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 0.43% (0.00428) | 33.97th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.08% (0.00081) | 21.52th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.04% (0.00042) | 5.07th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 26, 2023 | 0.04% (0.00042) | 5.67th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.04% (0.00043) | 7.88th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.28% (0.01282) | 68.34th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 13, 2023 | 1.28% (0.01282) | 67.79th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 3, 2023 | 1.55% (0.01547) | 74.40th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.28% (0.01282) | 65.91th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.28% (0.01282) | 41.72th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (16)
- http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pam/Linux-PAM/NEWS?rev=1.6&view=markup x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17346 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17350 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17352 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17365 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015111 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-22.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOPatchVendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-805.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15217 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2227 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2005-2977 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168181 x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1617773 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2977
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10193 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2977
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Nov 1, 2005
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Sep 19, 2005
Link CVE-2005-2977
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a