CVE-2020-13881

Summary

CVECVE-2020-13881
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-06 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-04-05 15:04:00 UTC
DescriptionIn support.c in pam_tacplus 1.3.8 through 1.5.1, the TACACS+ shared secret gets logged via syslog if the DEBUG loglevel and journald are used.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-532

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Arista Cloudvision Portal All All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Pam Tacplus Project Pam Tacplus All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - CVE-2020-13881: pam_tacplus 1.3.8 through 1.5.1, the TACACS+ shared secret gets logged via syslog if configured with debug parameter MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2239-1] libpam-tacplus security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
USN-4521-1: pam_tacplus vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 2730-1] libpam-tacplus security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Printing server secret key in plain text in journalctl · Issue #149 · kravietz/pam_tacplus · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
pam: don't leak TACACS+ secret to journald · kravietz/pam_tacplus@4a9852c · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory 0050 - Arista MISC www.arista.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178740 Debian Security Update for libpam-tacplus (DLA 2730-1)
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