CVE-2025-6018
highA Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability has been discovered in pam-config within Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM).
Vendor / product: Suse — pam-config
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6018 secalert@redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372693 secalert@redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243226 secalert@redhat.com
- https://cdn2.qualys.com/2025/06/17/suse15-pam-udisks-lpe.txt secalert@redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/28/4 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- https://cdn2.qualys.com/2025/06/17/suse15-pam-udisks-lpe.txt 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0