vulnerability

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2025-6018: pam security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 7, 2026
Added
Jan 8, 2026
Modified
Jan 8, 2026

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 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.

Solution

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-pam
Title
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