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.
CVE-2025-6020
“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.
This high-severity CVE scores 7.8 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.5% (38th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.8
- EG Score
- 7.8HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 35EG Risk 35/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity78% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation0.5% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines. - EPSS PROB
- 0.5%
- EPSS %ILE
- 38th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.a secondary CVSS source · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 0.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-17). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
June 17, 2025
Last Modified
October 12, 2026
Advisory Details (10)
Auto-updated Jun 25, 2026Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10362Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support EXTENSION.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10361Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP So
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10359Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Serv
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10358Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10357Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10354Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10180Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10027Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10024Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-6020(20)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:0934Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Release of OpenShift Serverless Logic 1.36.0 security update & enhancements
- RHSA-2025:22019Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update
- RHSA-2025:21885Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Compliance Operator bug fix and enhancement update
- RHSA-2025:20181Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update
- RHSA-2025:18219Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift 1.16.0
- RHSA-2025:17181Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Insights proxy Container Image
- RHSA-2025:16524Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: A Subscription Management tool for finding and reporting Red Hat product usage
- RHSA-2025:15828Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: updated web-terminal/tooling container image
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Patch Availability(27)
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pam | 1.4.0-9, 1.4.0-9+deb11u1 |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pam | 1.5.2-6, 1.5.2-6+deb12u1 |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pam | — |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pam | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(6)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2025:10024IMPORTANT2025-06-17
RHSA-2025:10024 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:10027IMPORTANT2025-06-17
RHSA-2025:10027 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:10180IMPORTANT2025-06-17
RHSA-2025:10180 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:10358IMPORTANT2025-06-17
RHSA-2025:10358 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:10361IMPORTANT2025-06-17
RHSA-2025:10361 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2025:10362IMPORTANT2025-06-17
RHSA-2025:10362 — Important
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 42× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 99 of 292 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 193 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-10-19 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 38th percentile
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- 2026-09-20 20:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
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- 2026-09-08 16:15 UTCVendor advisory
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