CVE-2026-44713
highpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.002 · 5 %ileEUEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.8.7, src/tmux.c reads the user's $TMUX environment variable, splits it on commas, and interpolates the socket-path component directly into a shell command passed to popen(). Because the value is placed inside double-quotes without sanitisation, any value containing " terminates the quoted string and injects arbitrary shell syntax. popen() runs as root inside the PAM stack. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.7.
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references (5)
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-44713cnnvd
- https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb/releasesPatchcnnvd
- https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb/security/advisories/GHSA-822m-whrh-vrj8cnnvd
- https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb/security/advisories/GHSA-822m-whrh-vrj8enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb/security/advisories/GHSA-822m-whrh-vrj8nvd
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