CVE-2026-109971CWE-214

CVE-2026-109971

Medium · published October 14, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A flaw was found in the clevis PKCS#11 pin. The clevis-decrypt-pkcs11 script passes the PKCS#11 token PIN as a command-line argument to pkcs11-tool, making it visible to any local user through process listing or the /proc filesystem.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00126 · 2.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-214 · Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information
Published
2026-10-14T14:17Z
References (3)
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-109971 · [email protected]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2550363 · [email protected]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2550363 · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 OCT 03:28Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 14 OCT 10:01Z
    Clevis: clevis: pkcs#11 token pin exposed on command line via pkcs11-tool
    cvelistv5
  • 14 OCT 10:01Z
    Clevis: clevis: pkcs#11 token pin exposed on command line via pkcs11-tool
    cvelistv5