{"id":66841,"date":"2025-07-23T21:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-6018-linux-pam-pam-config-local-privilege-escalation\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T21:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:01:53","slug":"cve-2025-6018-linux-pam-pam-config-local-privilege-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-6018-linux-pam-pam-config-local-privilege-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-6018 &#8211; Linux PAM pam-config Local Privilege Escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-6018<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> July 23, 2025, 3:15 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 44\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>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, &#8220;allow_active&#8221; 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 7.8 | HIGH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-6018 Published : July 23, 2025, 3:15 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 44\u00a0minutes ago Description : 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}