CVE-2026-47273
mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.003 · 20 %ileEUEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.0, pam_usb builds XPath expressions from user-supplied identifiers (PAM username, service name) and device-supplied identifiers (USB device serial, model, vendor) to query /etc/pamusb.conf. These identifiers were not validated for XPath metacharacters, allowing injection of arbitrary XPath predicates. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.0.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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affected products (1)
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references (10)
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- https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb/commit/721fed08a3596cb5b4671ad702f8fdc12dcc7420cnnvd
- https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb/pull/311cnnvd
- https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb/releasesPatchcnnvd
- https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb/security/advisories/GHSA-vfj3-5h5v-6g93cnnvd
- https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb/commit/721fed08a3596cb5b4671ad702f8fdc12dcc7420enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb/pull/311enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb/security/advisories/GHSA-vfj3-5h5v-6g93enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb/commit/721fed08a3596cb5b4671ad702f8fdc12dcc7420nvd
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