{"id":"ALSA-2025:20181","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.  \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","modified":"2026-02-04T03:02:44.994508Z","published":"2025-11-11T00:00:00Z","related":["CVE-2025-6020"],"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"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"pam","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:10","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/pam"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.6.1-8.el10"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux10/ALSA-2025:20181.json"}},{"package":{"name":"pam-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:10","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/pam-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.6.1-8.el10"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux10/ALSA-2025:20181.json"}},{"package":{"name":"pam-libs","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:10","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/pam-libs"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.6.1-8.el10"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux10/ALSA-2025:20181.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}