CVE-2026-109968

Published: Oct 14, 2026Modified: Oct 15, 2026

5.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

Description

A flaw was found in the clevis PKCS#11 pin. The clevis-pkcs11-afunix-socket-unlock daemon logs LUKS disk encryption passphrases in plaintext to a log file. The log file is created without restrictive permissions, making it world-readable under the default process umask. A local attacker can read the log file to obtain the LUKS passphrase.

Related CWEs

CWE-532

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Information written to log files can be of a sensitive nature and give valuable guidance to an attacker or expose sensitive user information.

References (2)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-109968

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2462394

Source: secalert@redhat.com

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