EUVD-2026-32651CVSS VectorNVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.0, multiple pam_usb helper tools resolved external binaries through the PATH environment variable rather than using absolute paths. An attacker who can influence the process environment during PAM authentication or tool execution could substitute malicious binaries. The affected tools are pamusb-check (src/tmux.c), pamusb-conf (tools/pamusb-conf), and pamusb-keyring-unlock-gnome (tools/pamusb-keyring-unlock-gnome). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.0.
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PATH hijacking in pam_usb helper tools prior to version 0.9.0 allows a local low-privileged attacker who can manipulate the process environment to substitute malicious binaries for those called by pamusb-check, pamusb-conf, and pamusb-keyring-unlock-gnome, resulting in high confidentiality and integrity impact. The root cause is CWE-427 (Uncontrolled Search Path Element): all three tools resolved external binaries - including id, whoami, pidof, gnome-keyring-daemon, and pamusb-check itself - through the attacker-controllable PATH variable rather than hardcoded absolute paths. …
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