Command Injection Affecting mcdope/pam_usb package, versions [,0.8.7)
Threat Intelligence
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- published28 May 2026
- disclosed27 May 2026
- creditmcdope
Introduced: 27 May 2026
NewCVE-2026-44713 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade mcdope/pam_usb to version 0.8.7 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the TMUX environment variable in the src/tmux.c process. An attacker can execute arbitrary commands as root by injecting malicious input into the environment variable, which is then unsafely interpolated into a shell command executed by popen().