CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-6018
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-07-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-30
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• suse pam-config 1.1.8-24.71.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6018 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372693 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243226 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn2.qualys.com/2025/06/17/suse15-pam-udisks-lpe.txt Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/28/4 www.openwall.com
- https://cdn2.qualys.com/2025/06/17/suse15-pam-udisks-lpe.txt Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory