CVE-2026-48981

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. In versions prior to 0.9.2, pamusb calls xmlReadFile with flags=0 when loading the configuration file, allowing libxml2 to process external entity references XXE, potentially making outbound network connections or...

CVE-2026-48982

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. In versions prior to 0.9.2, when updating a one-time pad file, a temporary file is created using open without the OEXCL flag. Without OEXCL, the create operation is not atomic: two concurrent processes racing to...

CVE-2026-48980 pam_usb: getenv() used in PAM context allows environment variable injection into local-check logic

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using removable media. In versions prior to 0.9.2, getenv environment variables XRDPSESSION, DISPLAY and TMUX allow environment variable injection into local-check logic. These environment variables influence whether a current session is local or...

CVE-2026-48983 pam_usb: TOCTOU race condition in pad directory creation allows symlink substitution

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. In versions prior to 0.9.2, a symlink race condition exists in per-device and per-user pad directory creation. pamusb uses a check-then-act pattern: it calls lstat to test for existence and then calls mkdir separate...

CVE-2026-48983

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. In versions prior to 0.9.2, a symlink race condition exists in per-device and per-user pad directory creation. pamusb uses a check-then-act pattern: it calls lstat to test for existence and then calls mkdir separate...

CVE-2026-48982 pam_usb: Missing O_EXCL on pad temp file creation allows concurrent update race

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. In versions prior to 0.9.2, when updating a one-time pad file, a temporary file is created using open without the OEXCL flag. Without OEXCL, the create operation is not atomic: two concurrent processes racing to...

CVE-2026-48981 pam_usb: xmlReadFile flags=0 permits XXE network entity fetching in conf.c

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. In versions prior to 0.9.2, pamusb calls xmlReadFile with flags=0 when loading the configuration file, allowing libxml2 to process external entity references XXE, potentially making outbound network connections or...

CVE-2026-48985 pam_usb: NULL Dereference Crash in pusb_is_loginctl_local when loginctl Returns Empty Remote Field

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. In versions 0.9.1 and below, pusbisloginctllocal can cause a NULL dereference crash when parsing loginctl output. The function calls popen and reads the result; if the Remote field is only a newline, fgets succeeds...

CVE-2026-48985

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. In versions 0.9.1 and below, pusbisloginctllocal can cause a NULL dereference crash when parsing loginctl output. The function calls popen and reads the result; if the Remote field is only a newline, fgets succeeds...

CVE-2026-48986

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using removable media. In pamusb 0.9.1 and earlier, usbgetprocessparentid can cause an infinite loop DoS because it does not initialize ppid on failure. In pusblocallogin, the same variable is reused as input and output in a process-tree while loo...

CVE-2026-48986

CVE-2026-48986 affects pam_usb (Linux hardware authentication with removable media). In versions up to 0.9.1, the usb_get_process_parent_id() routine can cause an infinite loop DoS because it does not initialize *ppid on failure. In pusb_local_login(), the same variable is reused in a process-tre...

CVE-2026-48984 pam_usb: xfree() does not call explicit_bzero — sensitive cryptographic material may linger in freed heap

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. In versions 0.9.1 and below, the xfree memory release helper in calls free without first zeroing the buffer contents, releasing heap-allocated buffers containing sensitive data — including one-time pad bytes read fr...

PT-2026-50771

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pam usb versions prior to 0.9.2 Description An infinite loop Denial of Service DoS occurs during the process-tree walk when a parent process exits during authentication. The function usb get process parent id fails to initialize the ppid...

PT-2026-50769

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pam usb versions 0.9.1 and earlier Description The xfree memory release helper calls free without zeroing buffer contents first. This results in heap-allocated buffers containing sensitive data, such as one-time pad bytes read from disk, being...

PT-2026-50784

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pam usb versions prior to 0.9.2 Description A symlink race condition exists in the creation of per-device and per-user pad directories. The software employs a check-then-act pattern, where it calls lstat to verify existence and subsequently...

CVE-2026-47270

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.0, pamusb is a PAM module loaded into the host process sudo, login, GDM, GNOME Shell. Display managers such as GDM run multiple concurrent authentication threads. Three functions used by the denyremote...

CVE-2026-47269

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.0, pamusb's denyremote feature checks utmpx utaddrv6 to detect whether an authentication request originates from a remote session. The outer guard was if utent-utaddrv60 != 0, which only tests the first...

CVE-2026-44711

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.8.7, symlink attacks on pad directory and pad files enable authentication bypass and root file corruption. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.7...

CVE-2026-44712

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.8.7, a crafted UUID such as $id/tmp/rce in the config causes root RCE when pamusb-conf --reset-pads is run. A USB device with a crafted filesystem UUID some controllers allow this can inject the payload a...

CVE-2026-48064

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.1, when a PAM service is configured with denyremote=false in pamusb commonly done for display managers such as gdm-password or lightdm to bypass process/TTY heuristics for local sessions, the PAMRHOST...