High (7.1). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
pam_oath.so in oath-toolkit 2.6.7 through 2.6.11 before 2.6.12 allows root privilege escalation because, in the context of PAM code running as root, it mishandles usersfile access, such as by calling fchown in the presence of a symlink.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.1 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 27% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)