CVE-2025-6018: Suse Pam-Config

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability has been discovered in pam-config within Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM). This flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker (for example, a user logged in via SSH) to obtain the elevated privileges normally reserved for a physically present, "allow_active" user. The highest risk is that the attacker can then perform all allow_active yes Polkit actions, which are typically restricted to console users, potentially gaining unauthorized control over system configurations, services, or other sensitive operations.

Affected products

• Suse Pam-Config: version 1.1.8-24.71.1 only

Published 2025-07-23. Last modified 2026-06-30.