{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2516 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2008-2516 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2008-2516 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Jun 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2008-2516 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2008-2516 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Jun 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2516 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2516/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2516/index.md)","id":"CVE-2008-2516","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2516/index.md","name":"CVE-2008-2516","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-f5j9-mgc7-gfx4"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux PAM module","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can bypass authentication and gain privileges by sending a SIGINT signal during password entry in specific PAM configurations.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"auth_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"libpam-pgsql","vendor":"libpam-pgsql"}],"cvss":{"score":4.6,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-287","name":"Improper Authentication"}],"description":"pam_sm_authenticate in pam_pgsql.c in libpam-pgsql 0.6.3 does not properly consider operator precedence when evaluating the success of a pam_get_pass function call, which allows local users to gain privileges via a SIGINT signal when this function is executing, as demonstrated by a CTRL-C sequence at a sudo password prompt in an \"auth sufficient pam_pgsql.so\" configuration.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Auth bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-2516","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"auth_bypass","year":"2008"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":7,"next":{"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-2517"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-2515"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2008-06-03","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local attackers can bypass authentication and gain privileges by sending a SIGINT signal during password entry in specific PAM configurations.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2516/"}