CVE-2023-4641 — Shadow-utils: possible password leak during passwd(1) change
A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleani…
Published: 2023-12-27 · CVSS: 4.7 · CVSS 3.1
A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the buffer used to store the first entry. This may allow an attacker with enough access to retrieve the password from the memory.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7