Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-109968

medium Nessus Plugin ID 365750

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- 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. (CVE-2026-109968)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 365750

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_109968.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/14/2026

Updated: 10/15/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.67

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-109968

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:clevis-dracut, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:clevis-luks, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:clevis-pin-pkcs11, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:clevis-systemd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:clevis-udisks2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:clevis, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:clevis-dracut, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:clevis-luks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:clevis-pin-pkcs11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:clevis-systemd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:clevis-udisks2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:clevis

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-109968

Detections

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