Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

An update for pam is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability...

RHEL 8 : pam (RHSA-2026:61224)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:61224 advisory. Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle...

RHEL 9 : pam (RHSA-2026:61230)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:61230 advisory. Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle...

RHEL 7 : pam (RHSA-2026:61227)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:61227 advisory. Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle...

RHEL 8 : pam (RHSA-2026:61225)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:61225 advisory. Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle...

RHEL 8 : pam (RHSA-2026:61223)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:61223 advisory. Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle...

RHEL 9 : pam (RHSA-2026:61228)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:61228 advisory. Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle...

OESA-2026-3574 sssd security update

Provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. It provides an NSS and PAM interface toward the system and a pluggable back end system to connect to multiple different account sources. It is also the basis to provide client auditing and policy...

CVE-2026-55857

MariaDB Connector/J is used to connect applications developed in Java to MariaDB and MySQL databases. Prior to 2.7.14, 3.3.5, 3.4.3, and 3.5.9, PAM dialog authentication can be coerced into transmitting the account password over an insecure connection. The mysqlclearpassword plugin is gated behin...

CVE-2026-55854

MariaDB Connector/Node.js is used to connect applications developed on Node.js to MariaDB and MySQL databases. Prior to 3.2.4, 3.3.3, 3.4.6, and 3.5.3, MariaDB Connector/Node.js can disclose an account password when PAM dialog authentication is negotiated over an insecure transport. In...

org.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-client has Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information and Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Summary When PAM dialog authentication is used, the connector can be coerced into sending the account password in cleartext over an insecure connection. A hostile or man-in-the-middle server can trigger this with the default configuration, disclosing the user's password. Details The...

GHSA-QXVW-FVWX-5CP7 org.mariadb.jdbc:mariadb-java-client has Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information and Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Summary When PAM dialog authentication is used, the connector can be coerced into sending the account password in cleartext over an insecure connection. A hostile or man-in-the-middle server can trigger this with the default configuration, disclosing the user's password. Details The...

CVE-2026-55857 MariaDB Connector/J: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information and Insufficiently Protected Credentials

MariaDB Connector/J is used to connect applications developed in Java to MariaDB and MySQL databases. Prior to 2.7.14, 3.3.5, 3.4.3, and 3.5.9, PAM dialog authentication can be coerced into transmitting the account password over an insecure connection. The mysqlclearpassword plugin is gated behin...

CVE-2026-55857 MariaDB Connector/J: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information and Insufficiently Protected Credentials

MariaDB Connector/J is used to connect applications developed in Java to MariaDB and MySQL databases. Prior to 2.7.14, 3.3.5, 3.4.3, and 3.5.9, PAM dialog authentication can be coerced into transmitting the account password over an insecure connection. The mysqlclearpassword plugin is gated behin...

CVE-2026-55857 MariaDB Connector/J: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information and Insufficiently Protected Credentials

MariaDB Connector/J is used to connect applications developed in Java to MariaDB and MySQL databases. Prior to 2.7.14, 3.3.5, 3.4.3, and 3.5.9, PAM dialog authentication can be coerced into transmitting the account password over an insecure connection. The mysqlclearpassword plugin is gated behin...

CVE-2026-55857

MariaDB Connector/J (versions prior to 2.7.14, 3.3.5, 3.4.3, and 3.5.9) is vulnerable to cleartext password transmission during PAM dialog authentication . The PAM handler SendPamAuthPacketFactory (referred to as dialog by the server) does not declare a secure-transport requirement and inherits t...

GHSA-42R5-VHPQ-M858 MariaDB has Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information and Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Summary When PAM dialog authentication is used, the connector can be coerced into sending the account password in cleartext over an insecure connection. A hostile or man-in-the-middle server can trigger this with the default configuration, disclosing the user's password. Details The...

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials via the SendPamAuthPacketFactory function. An attacker can intercept sensitive credentials by performing a man-in-the-middle attack or controlling a malicious server that issues an Authentication...

MariaDB has Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information and Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Summary When PAM dialog authentication is used, the connector can be coerced into sending the account password in cleartext over an insecure connection. A hostile or man-in-the-middle server can trigger this with the default configuration, disclosing the user's password. Details The...

CVE-2026-55854 MariaDB Connector/Node.js: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information and Insufficiently Protected Credentials in mariadb

MariaDB Connector/Node.js is used to connect applications developed on Node.js to MariaDB and MySQL databases. Prior to 3.2.4, 3.3.3, 3.4.6, and 3.5.3, MariaDB Connector/Node.js can disclose an account password when PAM dialog authentication is negotiated over an insecure transport. In...