CVE-2026-109971

A flaw was found in the clevis PKCS#11 pin. The clevis-decrypt-pkcs11 script passes the PKCS#11 token PIN as a command-line argument to pkcs11-tool, making it visible to any local user through process listing or the /proc filesystem.

CVSS v3 4.7 MEDIUM

4.7^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.0 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-109971
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2550363
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2550363

Configurations

No configuration.

History

14 Oct 2026, 12:17

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14 Oct 2026, 10:17

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-10-14 10:17

Updated : 2026-10-30 08:16

NVD link : CVE-2026-109971

Mitre link : CVE-2026-109971

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-109971

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-214

Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information

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