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CVE-2017-12197

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-12197 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting libpam4j versions up to and including 1.8, found in various Debian and Red Hat distributions. It allows authenticated users with valid passwords for disabled accounts to bypass security restrictions and potentially access sensitive information due to improper account validation. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libpam4j_project:libpam4j:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0151 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 21,939 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.kohsuke:libpam4jFixed in: 1.10
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: rh-sso7-keycloak-0:2.5.14-1.Final_redhat_1.1.jbcs.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.1 for RHEL 7Fixed in: rh-sso7-keycloak-0:2.5.14-1.Final_redhat_1.1.jbcs.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-x9rg-q5fx-fx66medium

Improper Input Validation in libpam4j

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2017-12197Moderate

libpam4j: Account check bypass

Oct 17, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2904
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2905
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2906
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-4025
Third Party Advisory