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CVE-2016-1601

9.8 criticalEPSS 2.5%

Critical (9.8) in suse yast2. EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-255
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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