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CVE-2026-54411VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

Affects Red Hat pamSource GCVE Database

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Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 00:32 UTC

Severity
Medium

Rated by Threat Radar · CVSS not yet scored by NVD

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 8 Sep 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated pam packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and its extended update support versions to address this vulnerability. Users should apply these official updates as detailed in the Red Hat advisory (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258) to remediate the issue. No alternative mitigations or workarounds are specified.

Description

A timing discrepancy vulnerability in the pam_userdb module of Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) allows plaintext password recovery. This issue affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and related variants. The vulnerability is rated as moderate severity by Red Hat Product Security. A security update addressing this flaw is available.

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