RHSA-2025:15107 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · September 3, 2025
Updated · October 13, 2026
Topic
An update for pam is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support.
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: Incomplete fix for CVE-2025-6020 (CVE-2025-8941)
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.