{"id":"RLSA-2025:9526","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\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.","modified":"2025-10-07T17:39:56.619015Z","published":"2025-10-04T00:11:30.916420Z","upstream":["CVE-2025-6020"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:9526"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372512"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"pam","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/pam?distro=rocky-linux-9-6&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:1.5.1-25.el9_6"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2025:9526.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}