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.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-07-23T14:58:59.750Z

Last Modified :

2025-11-06T21:10:28.564Z

Source :

redhat
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-6018 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Redhat
  • Enterprise Linux
Suse
  • Pam-config
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-6018.

URL Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/28/4 cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6018 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372693 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243226 cve-icon cve-icon
https://cdn2.qualys.com/2025/06/17/suse15-pam-udisks-lpe.txt cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6018 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-6018 cve-icon
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