RHSA-2025:10359 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · July 7, 2025

Updated · October 13, 2026

Topic

An update for pam is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service.

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2025:10359 — Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update | PulseLinux