CVE-2026-47272
pam_usb: OTP pad authentication bypass via missing system pad check and uninitialized RNG buffer
pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.0, the pusb_pad_compare() function in src/pad.c only verified that the user-side pad (~/.pamusb/device.pad) could be read, but did not enforce that the system-side pad (the pad file on the USB device) was also present and readable. If the user-side pad was deleted or unreadable, the function returned a failure that was treated as non-fatal in certain code paths, allowing authentication to succeed without the USB device being verified. A local user can delete their own ~/.pamusb/device.pad to remove the USB device requirement and authenticate without the physical device. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.0.
| CWE | CWE-287 CWE-908 |
| Vendor | mcdope |
| Product | pam_usb |
| Published | May 27, 2026 |
| Last Updated | May 28, 2026 |
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CVSS v3 Breakdown
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