alsa-2025:20181
Vulnerability from osv_almalinux
Published
2025-11-11 00:00
Modified
2025-11-24 10:46
Summary
Important: pam security update
Details

Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication.

Security Fix(es):

  • linux-pam: Linux-pam directory Traversal (CVE-2025-6020)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "AlmaLinux:10",
        "name": "pam"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.6.1-8.el10"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "AlmaLinux:10",
        "name": "pam-devel"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.6.1-8.el10"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "AlmaLinux:10",
        "name": "pam-libs"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.6.1-8.el10"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication.  \n\nSecurity Fix(es):  \n\n  * linux-pam: Linux-pam directory Traversal (CVE-2025-6020)\n\n\nFor more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.  \n\nAdditional Changes:  \n\nFor detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.\n",
  "id": "ALSA-2025:20181",
  "modified": "2025-11-24T10:46:53Z",
  "published": "2025-11-11T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20181"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6020"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2372512"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2025-20181.html"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "CVE-2025-6020"
  ],
  "summary": "Important: pam security update"
}


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