pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using removable media.
CVE-2026-64668
pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using removable media. From version 0.8.0 to before version 0.9.3, the denyremote feature in pamusb uses /usr/bin/w -i to detect whether the authenticating user has an active remote tmux session. In pusbtmuxhasremoteclients() (src/tmux.c), the IPv6 detection pattern matched the address group and then immediately expected whitespace. On Linux systems with multi-homed network interfaces, w -i appends a zone index (scope identifier) to link-local IPv6 addresses — e.g. fe80::1%eth0. The %eth0 suffix appeared between the address and the next whitespace field, causing the regex match to fail even for an otherwise-matching remote session. The function returned "no remote clients" and granted access. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.3.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 7.4 (v3.1)
- Severity
- High
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 11 November 2026
- Last updated
- 11 November 2026
- Assigner
- GitHub_M
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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