CVE-2026-109969 (GCVE-0-2026-109969)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-14 10:00
Modified
2026-11-05 16:20
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality
Summary
A flaw was found in the clevis PKCS#11 pin. The clevis-pkcs11-afunix-socket-unlock daemon creates AF_UNIX sockets without explicit permission restrictions or peer credential verification. Under a permissive process umask, any local user can connect to the control socket and inject arbitrary device/key pairs, or connect to the data socket to receive LUKS passphrases.
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Impacted products
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10     cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
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