CVE-2026-109969

medium

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.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-100954

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-14

Updated: 2026-10-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00116