CVE-2025-6020

high

Published 2025-09-03 · Modified 2025-06-26

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Important: pam security update

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Arch Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	`pam-devel-1.5.1-26.el9_6.aarch64.rpm`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.7.0-5`
sid	Fixed	`1.7.0-5`
forky	Fixed	`1.7.0-5`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.4.0-9+deb11u2`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.5.2-6+deb12u2`

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.