Linux-pam: linux-pam directory traversal
A flaw was found in linux-pam. The module pam_namespace may use access user-controlled paths without proper protection, allowing local users to elevate their privileges to root via multiple symlink attacks and race conditions.
Evidence and details
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2025-6020
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/1/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
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- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/2/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/3/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/4/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/5/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/6/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
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- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/7/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/8/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/9/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/10/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/11/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/12/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/13/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/14/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
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- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/15/product
- Affected versions
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- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/16/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/17/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/18/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/19/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Web Terminal 1.11 on RHEL 9
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/20/product
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Web Terminal 1.11 on RHEL 9
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/21/product
- Affected versions
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- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Web Terminal 1.12 on RHEL 9
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/22/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/23/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/24/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/25/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
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- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/26/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/27/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/28/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/29/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/30/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/31/product
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHOSS-1.36-RHEL-8
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/32/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
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- Not stated in this record
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- Not stated in this record
RHOSS-1.36-RHEL-8
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/33/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
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- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHOSS-1.36-RHEL-8
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/34/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
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- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHOSS-1.36-RHEL-8
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/35/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHOSS-1.36-RHEL-8
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/36/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHOSS-1.36-RHEL-8
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/37/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHOSS-1.36-RHEL-8
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/38/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHOSS-1.36-RHEL-8
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/39/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHOSS-1.36-RHEL-8
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/40/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHOSS-1.36-RHEL-8
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/41/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
RHOSS-1.36-RHEL-8
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/42/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
cert-manager operator for Red Hat OpenShift 1.16
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/43/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
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- Not stated in this record
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- Not stated in this record
Compliance Operator 1
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/44/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
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- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Discovery 2
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/45/product
- Affected versions
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Red Hat Discovery 2
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/46/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
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- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat Insights proxy 1.5
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/47/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.6.0
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/48/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.6.0
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/49/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.6.0
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/50/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.6.0
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/51/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.6.0
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/52/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.6.0
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/53/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.6.0
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/54/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.6.0
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/55/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.6.0
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/56/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.10
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/57/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.10
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/58/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.10
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/59/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.10
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/60/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
- Related CVEs
- CVE-2025-6020
Source reference:
/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics