{"id":"OESA-2025-1746","summary":"pam security update","details":"PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system of libraries that handle the authentication tasks of applications (services) on the system.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\nLinux-pam is a plug-in and unplugged system authentication software for Linux teams.\n There is a security vulnerability in Linux-pam. This vulnerability originates from insufficient protection when using user control paths by the pam_namespace module, which may cause local users to be elevated to root permissions through symbolic link attacks and race conditions.(CVE-2025-6020)","modified":"2026-08-18T01:18:52.700499202Z","published":"2025-07-04T11:08:50Z","upstream":["CVE-2025-6020"],"database_specific":{"severity":"High"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bulletins/detail/?id=openEuler-SA-2025-1746"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6020"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"pam","ecosystem":"openEuler:24.03-LTS-SP1","purl":"pkg:rpm/openEuler/pam&distro=openEuler-24.03-LTS-SP1"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.5.3-9.oe2403sp1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"noarch":["pam-help-1.5.3-9.oe2403sp1.noarch.rpm"],"src":["pam-1.5.3-9.oe2403sp1.src.rpm"],"x86_64":["pam-1.5.3-9.oe2403sp1.x86_64.rpm","pam-debuginfo-1.5.3-9.oe2403sp1.x86_64.rpm","pam-debugsource-1.5.3-9.oe2403sp1.x86_64.rpm","pam-devel-1.5.3-9.oe2403sp1.x86_64.rpm"],"aarch64":["pam-1.5.3-9.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm","pam-debuginfo-1.5.3-9.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm","pam-debugsource-1.5.3-9.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm","pam-devel-1.5.3-9.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm"]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://repo.openeuler.org/security/data/osv/OESA-2025-1746.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}