{"id":"RLSA-2026:56131","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.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* linux-pam: Plaintext password recovery via timing discrepancy in pam_userdb module (CVE-2026-54411)\n\nFor 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.","modified":"2026-08-19T06:30:04.281753850Z","published":"2026-08-19T06:01:07.331619Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-54411"],"database_specific":{"source_advisory":"RHSA-2026:56131","license":"CC-BY-4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:56131"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488766"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:56131"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"pam","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/pam?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:1.3.1-40.el8_10"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"BaseOS"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:56131.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}