RLSA-2025:20181

Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:20181
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2025:20181.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2025:20181
Upstream
Published
2026-01-14T09:14:26.918311Z
Modified
2026-01-14T10:00:04.443190Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
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.

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 10 Release Notes linked from the References section.

References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:10 / pam

Package

Name
pam
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/pam?distro=rocky-linux-10&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0:1.6.1-8.el10
Database specific
{
    "yum_repository": "BaseOS"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2025:20181.json"