What is CVE-2026-109968?

CVE-2026-109968 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-10-14.

How severe is CVE-2026-109968?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

CVE-2026-109968

A flaw was found in the clevis PKCS#11 pin. The clevis-pkcs11-afunix-socket-unlock daemon logs LUKS disk encryption passphrases in plaintext to a log file. The log file is created without restrictive permissions, making it world-readable under the default process umask. A local attacker can read the log file to obtain the LUKS passphrase.

Published 2026-10-14.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

No EPSS score from FIRST.org yet. New CVEs usually get one within a few days; no score means no signal yet, not low risk. How EPSS works.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-109968 (vdb-entry)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (issue-tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-109968?: CVE-2026-109968 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-10-14.
How severe is CVE-2026-109968?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.