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CVE-2026-47272— pam_usb: OTP pad authentication bypass via missing system pad check and uninitialized RNG buffer

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I. Basic Information for CVE-2026-47272

Vulnerability Information
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Vulnerability Title
pam_usb: OTP pad authentication bypass via missing system pad check and uninitialized RNG buffer
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.0, the pusb_pad_compare() function in src/pad.c only verified that the user-side pad (~/.pamusb/device.pad) could be read, but did not enforce that the system-side pad (the pad file on the USB device) was also present and readable. If the user-side pad was deleted or unreadable, the function returned a failure that was treated as non-fatal in certain code paths, allowing authentication to succeed without the USB device being verified. A local user can delete their own ~/.pamusb/device.pad to remove the USB device requirement and authenticate without the physical device. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.0.
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
认证机制不恰当
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)

Affected Products

VendorProductAffected VersionsCPESubscribe
mcdopepam_usb < 0.9.0 -

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Other References for CVE-2026-47272 (1)

Same Patch Batch · mcdope · 2026-05-27 · 15 CVEs total

CVE-2026-447138.8 HIGHpam_usb: Command injection via $TMUX environment variable leads to RCE as root
CVE-2026-447128.2 HIGHpam_usb: Shell injection via device UUID and username in pamusb-conf and pamusb-agent
CVE-2026-480648.1 HIGHpam_usb: PAM_RHOST check skipped when deny_remote=false allows XDMCP authentication bypass
CVE-2026-447117.9 HIGHpam_usb: Symlink attacks on pad directory and pad files enable authentication bypass and r
CVE-2026-447097.8 HIGHpam_usb: PINENTRY_FALLBACK_APP environment variable allows arbitrary command execution
CVE-2026-472697.4 HIGHpam_usb: deny_remote feature incorrectly classifies IPv4-mapped IPv6 remote connections as
CVE-2026-480656.7 MEDIUMpam_usb: Unchecked integer multiplication before xmalloc() in conf.c allows heap-based buf
CVE-2026-472736.5 MEDIUMpam_usb: XPath injection via PAM-supplied identifiers in pam_usb configuration queries
CVE-2026-472746.3 MEDIUMpam_usb: Uncontrolled search path in pam_usb tools allows privilege escalation via PATH ma
CVE-2026-472706.3 MEDIUMpam_usb: strtok() race condition in multi-threaded PAM hosts can corrupt deny_remote resul
CVE-2026-480665.7 MEDIUMpam_usb: Thread-unsafe static pointer in log.c causes data race under concurrent PAM authe
CVE-2026-472715.1 MEDIUMpam_usb: OOM guards removed by -DNDEBUG cause NULL dereference and authentication process
CVE-2026-447104.6 MEDIUMpam_usb: NULL pointer dereference from UDisks device fields causes PAM crash and login den
CVE-2026-487924.4 MEDIUMpam_usb: pusb_has_virtual_input_device() silently discards EACCES, disabling remote deskto

IV. Related Vulnerabilities

Same product: pam_usb
Same vendor: mcdope
Same weakness: CWE-287

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