CVE-2026-48792

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48792
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-48792.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-48792
Aliases
  • GHSA-pvrg-chgw-x42c
Published
2026-05-27T19:55:46.392Z
Modified
2026-08-12T16:25:29.714341Z
Severity
  • 4.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
pam_usb: pusb_has_virtual_input_device() silently discards EACCES, disabling remote desktop detection under non-root execution
Details

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.1, src/evdev.c silently ignores EACCES errors when opening /dev/input/event* nodes, causing pusbhasvirtualinput_device() to return 0 (no virtual devices found) even when every open() call failed due to insufficient permissions. The caller in src/local.c cannot distinguish a clean absence of virtual devices from a permission-denied scan, and acts on the false negative by continuing authentication without denying. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.1.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-390",
        "CWE-693"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/48xxx/CVE-2026-48792.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mcdope/pam_usb

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
e2f30b22cd0715fcde0fc62d6ee3e1ca6370b8a9
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.9.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.5.0
0.7.1
0.7.2
0.7.3
0.8.3
0.8.4
0.8.7
0.9.0
v0.*
v0.7.0
v0.8.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-48792.json"
vanir_signatures 
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            "file": "src/version.h"
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        "id": "CVE-2026-48792-b792a2ae",
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        "signature_type": "Line"
    }
]
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-08-12T16:25:29Z"