CVE-2025-6018 Information

Jul 24, 2025 cve

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 llow_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 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6018 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372693 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243226 https://cdn2.qualys.com/2025/06/17/suse15-pam-udisks-lpe.txt https://cdn2.qualys.com/2025/06/17/suse15-pam-udisks-lpe.txt

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8

CNNVD-202507-3030 (Published: 2025-07-23)

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