Issued:
2025-07-07
Updated:
2025-07-07

RHSA-2025:10361 - Important: pam security update

Synopsis

Important: pam security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for pam is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support EXTENSION.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication.

Security Fix(es):

  • linux-pam: Linux-pam directory Traversal (CVE-2025-6020)

For 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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS8.4x86_64

Updated Packages

  • pam-1.3.1-14.el8_4.1.i686.rpm
  • pam-1.3.1-14.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm
  • pam-debugsource-1.3.1-14.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm
  • pam-devel-1.3.1-14.el8_4.1.i686.rpm
  • pam-debuginfo-1.3.1-14.el8_4.1.i686.rpm
  • pam-1.3.1-14.el8_4.1.src.rpm
  • pam-debugsource-1.3.1-14.el8_4.1.i686.rpm
  • pam-debuginfo-1.3.1-14.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm
  • pam-devel-1.3.1-14.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information