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Linux-pam

23 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Linux-pam, a product in the operating systems space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

Linux-pam CVEs per month

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
Linux-pam CVEs per month
MonthCVEs
2024-101
2024-110
2024-120
2025-010
2025-020
2025-030
2025-040
2025-050
2025-061
2025-071
2025-081
2025-090
2025-100
2025-110
2025-120
2026-010
2026-020
2026-030
2026-040
2026-050
2026-061
2026-070
2026-080
2026-090

Severity

How the 23 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.

  • Critical29%
  • High522%
  • Medium1357%
  • Low313%

Latest CVEs

The 15 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Linux-pam.

  1. CVE-2026-54411Linux-PAM pam_userdb Observable Timing Discrepancy in Plaintext Password Comparison5.9
  2. CVE-2025-8941Linux-pam: incomplete fix for cve-2025-60207.8
  3. CVE-2025-6018Pam-config: lpe from unprivileged to allow_active in pam7.8
  4. CVE-2025-6020Linux-pam: linux-pam directory traversal7.8
  5. CVE-2024-10041Pam: libpam: libpam vulnerable to read hashed password4.7
  6. CVE-2024-22365linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY.5.5
  7. CVE-2022-28321The Linux-PAM package before 1.5.2-6.1 for openSUSE Tumbleweed allows authentication bypass for SSH logins. The pam_access.so module doesn't correctly restrict login if a user tries to connect from...9.8
  8. CVE-2020-27780A flaw was found in Linux-Pam in versions prior to 1.5.1 in the way it handle empty passwords for non-existing users. When the user doesn't exist PAM try to authenticate with root and in the case o...9.8
  9. CVE-2018-17953pam_access does not handle netmask matches correctly7.5
  10. CVE-2015-3238The _unix_run_helper_binary function in the pam_unix module in Linux-PAM (aka pam) before 1.2.1, when unable to directly access passwords, allows local users to enumerate usernames or cause a denia...6.5
  11. CVE-2014-2583Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in pam_timestamp.c in the pam_timestamp module for Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.1.8 allow local users to create arbitrary files or possibly bypass authenticati...5.8
  12. CVE-2011-3149The _expand_arg function in the pam_env module (modules/pam_env/pam_env.c) in Linux-PAM (aka pam) before 1.1.5 does not properly handle when environment variable expansion can overflow, which allow...2.1
  13. CVE-2011-3148Stack-based buffer overflow in the _assemble_line function in modules/pam_env/pam_env.c in Linux-PAM (aka pam) before 1.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly exec...4.6
  14. CVE-2010-4706The pam_sm_close_session function in pam_xauth.c in the pam_xauth module in Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.1.2 and earlier does not properly handle a failure to determine a certain target uid, which might a...4.9
  15. CVE-2010-4708The pam_env module in Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.1.2 and earlier reads the .pam_environment file in a user's home directory, which might allow local users to run programs with an unintended environment ...7.2

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