CVE-2026-94579

high

An OS command injection vulnerability exists in the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) session cleanup routines during SSH session termination on Brocade Fa…

Vendor / product: Broadcom — fabric operating system

An OS command injection vulnerability exists in the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) session cleanup routines during SSH session termination on Brocade Fabric OS versions before 9.2.2d and 10.0.0 through 10.0.0a1. An authenticated user authenticating via an external directory or AAA service whose username or profile identifier contains shell metacharacters can trigger arbitrary command execution with root privileges when their remote SSH session closes.

CVSS

8.0

8.0 (CVSS v3.1)

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)

Timeline (UTC)

Published: 2026-10-08 05:17

Modified: 2026-10-14 19:35

NVD status: Analyzed

Last synced 2 days ago

Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:58 UTC

Exploitation

Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)

Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

broadcom / fabric_operating_system <9.2.2d, ≥10.0.0 <10.0.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://support.broadcom.com/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/39147

References

https://support.broadcom.com/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/39147 sirt@brocade.com

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:58 UTC · record ↗

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