Vulnerabilites related to suse - pam-config
CVE-2025-6018 (GCVE-0-2025-6018)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-23 14:58
Modified
2025-07-23 15:13
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Summary
A Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability has been discovered in pam-config within Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM). This flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker (for example, a user logged in via SSH) to obtain the elevated privileges normally reserved for a physically present, "allow_active" user. The highest risk is that the attacker can then perform all allow_active yes Polkit actions, which are typically restricted to console users, potentially gaining unauthorized control over system configurations, services, or other sensitive operations.
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6018vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372693issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243226
https://cdn2.qualys.com/2025/06/17/suse15-pam-udisks-lpe.txt
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Version: 0   < 1.1.8-24.71.1
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-07-23 15:15
Modified
2025-10-09 15:55
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability has been discovered in pam-config within Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM). This flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker (for example, a user logged in via SSH) to obtain the elevated privileges normally reserved for a physically present, "allow_active" user. The highest risk is that the attacker can then perform all allow_active yes Polkit actions, which are typically restricted to console users, potentially gaining unauthorized control over system configurations, services, or other sensitive operations.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6018Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372693Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243226Exploit, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://cdn2.qualys.com/2025/06/17/suse15-pam-udisks-lpe.txtExploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://cdn2.qualys.com/2025/06/17/suse15-pam-udisks-lpe.txtExploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
suse pam-config 1.1.8-24.71.1


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