CVE-2026-44710CWE-476

pam_usb: NULL pointer dereference from UDisks device fields causes PAM crash and login denial-of-service

Medium · published May 27, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.8.7, src/device.c passed the return values of udisks_drive_get_serial(), udisks_drive_get_vendor(), and udisks_drive_get_model() directly to strcmp() without NULL checks. The GIO/UDisks API documentation states these accessors can return NULL for devices that do not expose the corresponding field. Passing NULL to strcmp() is undefined behaviour (typically a SIGSEGV). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.7.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00251 · 15.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2026-05-27T20:19Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAY 20:19Z
    pam_usb: NULL pointer dereference from UDisks device fields causes PAM crash and login denial-of-service
    cvelistv5