CVE-2015-3238 Information disclosure in n/a
Medium 6.5
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2015-3238 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2015-3238 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 24 Aug 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-3238 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-3238/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-3238/index.md)
Local attackers can enumerate usernames or cause a denial of service in Linux-PAM when direct password access is unavailable.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2015-3238?
CVE-2015-3238 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 24 Aug 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The _unix_run_helper_binary function in the pam_unix module in Linux-PAM (aka pam) before 1.2.1, when unable to directly access passwords, allows local users to enumerate usernames or cause a denial of service (hang) via a large password.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-3238?
It affects 2 products.
Linux distribution packages (33)
pam Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:1.1.1-20.el6_7.1 |
pam-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:1.1.1-20.el6_7.1 |
pam-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:1.1.1-20.el6_7.1 |
pam Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 0:1.1.1-20.el6_7.1 |
pam-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 0:1.1.1-20.el6_7.1 |
pam-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 0:1.1.1-20.el6_7.1 |
pam Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:1.1.1-20.el6_7.1 |
pam-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:1.1.1-20.el6_7.1 |
pam-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:1.1.1-20.el6_7.1 |
pam Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:1.1.1-20.el6_7.1 |
pam-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:1.1.1-20.el6_7.1 |
pam-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:1.1.1-20.el6_7.1 |
pam Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:1.1.8-12.el7_1.1 |
pam-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:1.1.8-12.el7_1.1 |
pam-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:1.1.8-12.el7_1.1 |
pam Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:1.1.8-12.el7_1.1 |
pam-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:1.1.8-12.el7_1.1 |
pam-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:1.1.8-12.el7_1.1 |
pam Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:1.1.8-12.ael7b_1.1 |
pam-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:1.1.8-12.ael7b_1.1 |
pam-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:1.1.8-12.ael7b_1.1 |
pam Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 0:1.1.8-12.el7_1.1 |
pam-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 0:1.1.8-12.el7_1.1 |
pam-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 0:1.1.8-12.el7_1.1 |
pam SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 | All versions | 1.1.8-23.1 |
pam SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 | All versions | 1.1.8-23.1 |
pam SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 | All versions | 1.1.8-23.1 |
pam SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 | All versions | 1.1.8-23.1 |
pam SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 | All versions | 1.1.8-23.1 |
pam SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 | All versions | 1.1.8-23.1 |
pam SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 | All versions | 1.1.8-23.1 |
pam SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1 | All versions | 1.1.8-23.1 |
pam SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 | All versions | 1.1.8-23.1 |
Products include Linux-Pam Linux-Pam, Oracle Sparc-Opl Service Processor.
How do I fix CVE-2015-3238?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2015-3238 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-3238 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3238, GHSA-6r75-hhm5-f689, MGASA-2015-0266, RHSA-2015:1640, SUSE-SU-2017:1398-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3238.