CVE-2025-8941 (GCVE-0-2025-8941)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-13 14:42
Modified
2025-09-15 17:57
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-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Summary
A flaw was found in linux-pam. The pam_namespace module may improperly handle user-controlled paths, allowing local users to exploit symlink attacks and race conditions to elevate their privileges to root. This CVE provides a "complete" fix for CVE-2025-6020.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:14557
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15099
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15100
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15101
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15102
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15103
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15104
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15105
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15106
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15107
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15709
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15827
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15828
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8941
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2388220
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support Unaffected: 0:1.1.8-23.el7_9.2   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:1.3.1-38.el8_10   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support Unaffected: 0:1.3.1-8.el8_2.2   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support Unaffected: 0:1.3.1-14.el8_4.2   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.4::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On Unaffected: 0:1.3.1-14.el8_4.2   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::baseos
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.4::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support Unaffected: 0:1.3.1-16.el8_6.3   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6::baseos
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6::baseos
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service Unaffected: 0:1.3.1-16.el8_6.3   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6::baseos
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6::baseos
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions Unaffected: 0:1.3.1-16.el8_6.3   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6::baseos
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6::baseos
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service Unaffected: 0:1.3.1-26.el8_8.2   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.8::baseos
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.8::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions Unaffected: 0:1.3.1-26.el8_8.2   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.8::baseos
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.8::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:1.5.1-26.el9_6   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:1.5.1-26.el9_6   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions Unaffected: 0:1.5.1-9.el9_0.3   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.0::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.0::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions Unaffected: 0:1.5.1-15.el9_2.2   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.2::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.2::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 0:1.5.1-24.el9_4.1   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat Web Terminal 1.11 on RHEL 9 Unaffected: 1.11-19   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:webterminal:1.11::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat Web Terminal 1.11 on RHEL 9 Unaffected: 1.11-8   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:webterminal:1.11::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat Web Terminal 1.12 on RHEL 9 Unaffected: 1.12-4   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:webterminal:1.12::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.1 Unaffected: sha256:24722900db1425bf0c27f6ad6f3fb7d79ff9ebc433bdab58423fa71bab76122b   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:confidential_compute_attestation:1.10::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.1 Unaffected: sha256:f5e1602d72177d77f1b879c76e6f6cfbc2979c136c06ca9f03ea97ffb369b7a6   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:confidential_compute_attestation:1.10::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.1 Unaffected: sha256:cead623ceda4048cabaa81c371ed2a8143f5c5514276fca1d71685bd9e6d1e65   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:confidential_compute_attestation:1.10::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.1 Unaffected: sha256:8caeae7ffadf08840a47bc90c390ff402dd7db11457bca48f4e08a11e394be74   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:confidential_compute_attestation:1.10::el9
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