RHSA-2025:22019HighCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

Published
November 25, 2025
Last Modified
August 17, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-6020 →

📋 Description

CVE-2025-6020 — linux-pam: Linux-pam directory Traversal

🎯 Affected products39

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debuginfo-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-debugsource-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-devel-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-devel-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-devel-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-devel-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-libs-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-libs-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
  • pam-libs-0:1.6.1-8.el10_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Disable the `pam_namespace` module if it is not essential for your environment, or carefully review and configure it to avoid operating on any directories or paths that can be influenced or controlled by unprivileged users, such as user home directories or world-writable locations like `/tmp`.

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