AEGLIX vulnerability intelligence
CVE-2026-47272
HIGH · CVSS 7.1 · Deferred
Published: 2026-05-27 · Updated: 2026-10-26 · Source: NVD
Stored catalog record
Source record retrieved 2026-10-28T10:25:19.530760+00:00. Scheduled imports handle updates; this page does not assert that the provider was queried just now.
Vulnerability overview
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.
Patch review priority
Assess exposure and vendor guidance
- No higher-priority signal is available in the current stored evidence.
FIRST EPSS: 0.12% · percentile 1.7 · score date 2026-10-27.
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Severity and scoring
- CVSS score
- 7.1 · HIGH
- CVSS version
- 3.1
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287, CWE-908
CVSS measures technical severity; it does not establish whether this vulnerability is being exploited in your environment.
Known exploitation and remediation
Not listed in the CISA catalog retrieved for this record. This does not establish that exploitation has not occurred.
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Affected products and versions
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