Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
7.8
OS Command Injection
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.8.7, pamusb-pinentry reads the PINENTRYFALLBACKAPP environment variable and executes it directly without any validation. Any process that can set environment variables before pamusb-pinentry is invoked can point PINENTRYFALLBACKAPP at an arbitrary binary or script and have it executed with the privileges of the pamusb tool chain. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.7.

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