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SUSE: 2025:02013-1 Critical: pam Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
The latest pam revisions tackle vital security concerns aimed at bolstering the integrity of the system and ensuring a secure user experience.
* bsc#1243226 * bsc#1244509 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-6018

Summary

## This update for pam fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-6018: pam_env: Change the default to not read the user .pam_environment file (bsc#1243226). * CVE-2025-6020: pam_namespace: convert functions that may operate on a user- controlled path to operate on file descriptors instead of absolute path (bsc#1244509). ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * openSUSE Leap 15.6 zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-2013=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-2013=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-2013=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue privilege escalation important suse pam

References

* bsc#1243226

* bsc#1244509

Cross-

* CVE-2025-6018

* CVE-2025-6020

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-6018 ( SUSE ): 8.6

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-6018 ( SUSE ): 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

* CVE-2025-6020 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

* Development Tools Module 15-SP6

* Development Tools Module 15-SP7

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

* SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02013-1
Release Date: 2025-06-18T18:06:12Z
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue privilege escalation important suse pam

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