CVSS 4.0
6.9 mediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/AU:N/V:DCVE-2026-54411
Medium (6.9). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Linux-PAM through 1.7.2 contains an observable timing discrepancy (CWE-208) in the pam_userdb module's plaintext-password comparison path in modules/pam_userdb/pam_userdb.c that allows a local or network-adjacent attacker able to repeatedly drive authentication through a calling service to recover the plaintext password of a target account by measuring response-timing differences.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.9 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 25% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-208
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced