CVE-2020-27743

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Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27743

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27743.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-27743

Downstream

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27743

Published

2020-10-26T22:15:13.203Z

Modified

2025-11-20T11:23:48.736007Z

Severity

9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

libtac in pamtacplus through 1.5.1 lacks a check for a failure of RANDbytes()/RANDpseudobytes(). This could lead to use of a non-random/predictable session_id.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/kravietz/pam_tacplus

Affected ranges

Type: GIT
Repo: https://github.com/kravietz/pam_tacplus
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected

Last affected

a21b05c1fe7ce99aa0ee01809c69b878ba90b122

Affected versions

1.*

1.3.8

1.3.9

v1.*

v1.4.1

v1.5.0-beta.1

v1.5.1

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27743.json"