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...

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...

CVE-2026-55854

MariaDB Connector/Node.js can disclose an account password in cleartext when PAM dialog authentication is negotiated over an insecure transport. The root cause is in lib/cmd/handshake/auth/pam-password-auth.js and lib/cmd/handshake/authentication.js, where SendPamAuthPacketFactory lacked the secu...

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...

CVE-2026-55860: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

MariaDB Connector/R2DBC is a non-blocking MariaDB and MySQL client implemented in Java. Prior to 1.4.1, org.mariadb:r2dbc-mariadb does not gate clear-text password authentication plugins on transport encryption because the AuthenticationPlugin interface has no capability for a plugin to require a...

CVE-2026-55854: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

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...

CVE-2026-55857: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

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...

PT-2026-83348

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MariaDB Connector/Node.js versions prior to 3.2.4 MariaDB Connector/Node.js versions prior to 3.3.3 MariaDB Connector/Node.js versions prior to 3.4.6 MariaDB Connector/Node.js versions prior to 3.5.3 Description MariaDB Connector/Node.js can...

Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: selinux-policy (UTSA-2025-002272)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-002272 advisory. An issue was discovered in the selinux-policy aka Reference Policy package 3.14 through 2020-08-24 because the .config/Yubico directory is mishandled. Consequently,...

PT-2026-83373

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MariaDB Connector/J versions prior to 2.7.14 MariaDB Connector/J versions prior to 3.3.5 MariaDB Connector/J versions prior to 3.4.3 MariaDB Connector/J versions prior to 3.5.9 Description When using PAM dialog authentication, the connector ca...

RHSA-2026:60224 Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

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SUSE SLES12: libipa_hbac-devel / libipa_hbac0 / libsss_certmap0 / etc (SUSE-SU-2026:3797-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:3797-1 advisory. This update for sssd fixes the following issue: - CVE-2026-68743: insufficient validation in the PAM responder can lead to an out-of-bounds...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

An update for pam is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CV...

linux-pam: Plaintext password recovery via timing discrepancy in pam_userdb module

A flaw was found in Linux-PAM's pamuserdb module. This vulnerability, categorized as an Observable Timing Discrepancy CWE-208, allows a local or network-adjacent attacker to recover plaintext passwords. By repeatedly attempting authentication and measuring response-timing differences during...

pam security update

An update is available for pam. This update affects Rocky Linux 10. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system to set up authentication...

RLSA-2026:59379 Moderate: pam security update

Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication. Security Fixes: linux-pam: Plaintext password recovery via timing discrepancy in pamuserdb module CVE-2026-54411 For more details about the...

RHSA-2026:59379 Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

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SUSE CVE-2026-61898

The Ubuntu-specific language helper scripts save-to-pam-env, update-langlist shipped with accountsservice before 23.13.9-8ubuntu7 treat the user-controlled LANGUAGE entry in /.pamenvironment as trusted input. The value is interpolated unescaped into a GNU sed replacement expression, allowing an...