RLSA-2026:56131

Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:56131
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:56131.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2026:56131
Upstream
Published
2026-08-19T06:01:07.331619Z
Modified
2026-08-19T06:30:04.281753850Z
Severity
  • 4.8 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Moderate: pam security update
Details

Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication.

Security Fix(es):

  • linux-pam: Plaintext password recovery via timing discrepancy in pam_userdb module (CVE-2026-54411)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Database specific
{
    "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "source_advisory": "RHSA-2026:56131",
    "license": "CC-BY-4.0"
}
References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:8 / pam

Package

Name
pam
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/pam?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0:1.3.1-40.el8_10
Database specific
Show details
{
    "yum_repository": "BaseOS"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:56131.json"