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CVE-2026-44713

HIGH CVSS: 8.8 Published: 2026-05-27 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-78, CWE-116

References