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CVE-2016-1601
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-04-26T14:59:00.127 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:42:14.340

Summary

yast2-users before 3.1.47, as used in SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1, does not properly set empty password fields in /etc/shadow during an AutoYaST installation when the profile does not contain inst-sys users, which might allow attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Affected products

suse — yast2

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References

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