CVE search · CVE-2025-6018
CVE-2025-6018
high 7.8
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.
Details
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- Last changed
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- Weakness
- CWE-863
Severity
| Version | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | high 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
secalert@redhat.comSecondary |
Affected products
Vendor and product from the NVD’s CPE applicability statements. Versions and conditions are on the NVD’s page.
- suse · pam-config
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6018Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372693Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243226ExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://cdn2.qualys.com/2025/06/17/suse15-pam-udisks-lpe.txtExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/28/4
- https://cdn2.qualys.com/2025/06/17/suse15-pam-udisks-lpe.txtExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory