CVE detail

CVE-2006-5659 — CVE-2006-5659

Published 2006-11-03 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor pam_extern · Product pam_extern · Source nvd

UNKNOWN

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0032

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

24.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

PAM_extern before 0.2 sends a password as a command line argument, which allows local users to obtain the password by listing the command line arguments, such as ps. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

cvedb.io · NVD · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS · vendor advisories (CVE Program List v5). Informational only, no warranty — verify every remediation against the vendor advisory before acting on it. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD, CISA, FIRST.org or any vendor named. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.