Title: HP-UX Ignite-UX Blank Password Field Vulnerability
Severity: CRITICAL
Description:
In systems running HP-UX, the password field in /etc/passwd contains a token character, "*". Under some circumstances, this field can be set to empty -- leaving the HP-UX system vulnerable to compromise. One such circumstance which can cause this to occur is by creating an image of a system with Ignite-UX, which does not normally include the /etc/passwd file. When the image is loaded on a system, the password file will be left with blank entries.
Affected Products:
- HP HP-UX (VVOS) 11.0.0 4
- HP HP-UX 11.0.0
- HP HP-UX 11.11.0
- HP HP-UX 11.20.0
- HP HP-UX B.11.00
- HP HP-UX B.11.11
- HP HP-UX B.11.22
- HP HP-UX B.11.23
- HP Java SDK/RTE for HP-UX PA-RISC 1.3.0
- HP Java SDK/RTE for HP-UX PA-RISC 1.4.0
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