CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-44713

8.8 HIGH Published 2026-05-27 Modified 2026-10-26 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-05-27
Last modified
2026-10-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-116, CWE-78

Description

pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.8.7, src/tmux.c reads the user's $TMUX environment variable, splits it on commas, and interpolates the socket-path component directly into a shell command passed to popen(). Because the value is placed inside double-quotes without sanitisation, any value containing " terminates the quoted string and injects arbitrary shell syntax. popen() runs as root inside the PAM stack. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.7.

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-116 Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness

References