CVE-2026-109969

Published: Oct 14, 2026Modified: Oct 19, 2026

4.7

Vector

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

Exploitability: 1.0 / 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 creates AF_UNIX sockets without explicit permission restrictions or peer credential verification. Under a permissive process umask, any local user can connect to the control socket and inject arbitrary device/key pairs, or connect to the data socket to receive LUKS passphrases.

Related CWEs

CWE-306

Missing Authentication for Critical Function

The product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.

References (2)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-109969

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2550361

Source: secalert@redhat.com

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