High RHSA-2025:10357 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

Published Jul 7, 2025 · Updated Oct 14, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 3

Release	Package	Fixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	pam	0:1.1.8-23.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	pam-debuginfo	0:1.1.8-23.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	pam-devel	0:1.1.8-23.el7_9.1

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2025-6020 Public exploit

Linux-pam: linux-pam directory traversal

A flaw was found in linux-pam. The module pam_namespace may use access user-controlled paths without proper protection, allowing local users to elevate their privileges to root via multiple symlink attacks and race conditions.

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

Jun 17, 2025

References

article
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372512
advisory
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_10357.json
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6020
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-6020
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6020
article
https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/security/advisories/GHSA-f9p8-gjr4-j9gx