CVE-2026-44713: CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') in mcdope pam_usb
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.
CVE-2026-44713: CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') in mcdope pam_usb
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.
CVSS v3.1
Score 8.8high
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- GitHub_M
- Date Reserved
- 2026-05-07T17:07:09.318Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a175c27e29bf47b50eb6092
Added to database: 5/27/2026, 9:03:35 PM
Last updated: 5/27/2026, 9:03:56 PM
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