MEDIUMVulnerability
CVE-2026-54411
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.
Properties
- severity
- MEDIUM
- score
- 5.9
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-54411
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- published_at
- 2026-06-14T18:17:20.587
- last_modified
- 2026-08-10T12:17:17.103
Related Entities (2)
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Observable Timing Discrepancy
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
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