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...

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...

AZL-90093 CVE-2026-54411 affecting package pam for versions less than 1.5.3-5

Linux-PAM through 1.7.2 contains an observable timing discrepancy CWE-208 in the pamuserdb module's plaintext-password comparison path in modules/pamuserdb/pamuserdb.c that allows a local or network-adjacent attacker able to repeatedly drive authentication through a calling service to recover the...