CVE-2026-64669
Published:November 11, 2026
Updated:November 11, 2026
pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using removable media. From version 0.8.0 to before version 0.9.3, the deny_remote feature in pam_usb uses /usr/bin/w -i to detect whether the authenticating user has an active remote tmux session. In pusb_tmux_has_remote_clients() (src/tmux.c), the IPv6 detection regex required exactly four explicit colon-separated groups of 1-4 hex digits (e.g. 2001:0db8:85a3:0000). Any IPv6 address in compressed notation ā including loopback (::1), link-local (fe80::1), and global unicast addresses (2001:db8::1) ā did not match this pattern. As a result the remote-client check silently returned "no remote clients" even when a remote tmux client was connected from such an address. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.3.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) =v0.8.0 <0.9.3 || >=0.8.1 <0.9.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.9.3Related ResourcesĀ (4)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
9.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.4
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE