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No end-user mitigation is available for this issue. The PIN exposure occurs in the clevis-decrypt-pkcs11 script itself, which must be updated to pass the PIN through an environment variable instead of the command line.
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Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:15:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Clevis: clevis: pkcs#11 token pin exposed on command line via pkcs11-tool | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat openshift |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-214 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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| Vendors & Products |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat openshift |
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cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-14T10:01:05.070Z
Reserved: 2026-10-13T11:32:07.005Z
Link: CVE-2026-109971
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-14T10:17:53.440
Modified: 2026-10-14T10:17:53.440
Link: CVE-2026-109971
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CWE-214
Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information