CVE-2021-31924

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

Yubico pam-u2f before 1.1.1 has a logic issue that, depending on the pam-u2f configuration and the application used, could lead to a local PIN bypass. This issue does not allow user presence (touch) or cryptographic signature verification to be bypassed, so an attacker would still need to physically possess and interact with the YubiKey or another enrolled authenticator. If pam-u2f is configured to require PIN authentication, and the application using pam-u2f allows the user to submit NULL as the PIN, pam-u2f will attempt to perform a FIDO2 authentication without PIN. If this authentication is successful, the PIN requirement is bypassed.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-31924

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-31924.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202106-16

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.1.1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.1.0-1.1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.1.0-1.1
debian debianforkyfixed1.1.0-1.1
debian debiansidfixed1.1.0-1.1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.1.0-1.1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.