CVE-2026-109968

MEDIUMCVSS 5.5

Description

A flaw was found in the clevis PKCS#11 pin. The clevis-pkcs11-afunix-socket-unlock daemon logs LUKS disk encryption passphrases in plaintext to a log file. The log file is created without restrictive permissions, making it world-readable under the default process umask. A local attacker can read the log file to obtain the LUKS passphrase.

Timeline

Published:October 14th, 2026 1:17 PM

Last modified:October 15th, 2026 4:33 PM

CVSS Scoring

CVSS v3: 5.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-532

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-109968
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2462394

Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute