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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 : PAM vulnerability (USN-7580-1)

🗓️ 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Ubuntu 22.04/24.04/24.10/25.04 has PAM vulnerability allowing local privilege escalation to root.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7580-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <https://ubuntu.com/security/notices>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(240200);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/06/19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2025-6020");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"7580-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 : PAM vulnerability (USN-7580-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability
as referenced in the USN-7580-1 advisory.

    Olivier BAL-PETRE discovered that the PAM pam_namespace module incorrectly handled user-controlled paths.
    In environments where pam_namespace is used, a local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate
    their privileges to root.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7580-1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2025-6020");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2025/06/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2025/06/18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/06/19");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-cracklib");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-modules");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-modules-bin");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-runtime");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam0g");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam0g-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2025 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}

include('debian_package.inc');

if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('22.04' >< os_release || '24.04' >< os_release || '24.10' >< os_release || '25.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04 / 24.10 / 25.04', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Ubuntu', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam-cracklib', 'pkgver': '1.4.0-11ubuntu2.6'},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam-modules', 'pkgver': '1.4.0-11ubuntu2.6'},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam-modules-bin', 'pkgver': '1.4.0-11ubuntu2.6'},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam-runtime', 'pkgver': '1.4.0-11ubuntu2.6'},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam0g', 'pkgver': '1.4.0-11ubuntu2.6'},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam0g-dev', 'pkgver': '1.4.0-11ubuntu2.6'},
    {'osver': '24.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam-modules', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-5ubuntu5.4'},
    {'osver': '24.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam-modules-bin', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-5ubuntu5.4'},
    {'osver': '24.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam-runtime', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-5ubuntu5.4'},
    {'osver': '24.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam0g', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-5ubuntu5.4'},
    {'osver': '24.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam0g-dev', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-5ubuntu5.4'},
    {'osver': '24.10', 'pkgname': 'libpam-modules', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-7ubuntu2.3'},
    {'osver': '24.10', 'pkgname': 'libpam-modules-bin', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-7ubuntu2.3'},
    {'osver': '24.10', 'pkgname': 'libpam-runtime', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-7ubuntu2.3'},
    {'osver': '24.10', 'pkgname': 'libpam0g', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-7ubuntu2.3'},
    {'osver': '24.10', 'pkgname': 'libpam0g-dev', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-7ubuntu2.3'},
    {'osver': '25.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam-modules', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-7ubuntu4.3'},
    {'osver': '25.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam-modules-bin', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-7ubuntu4.3'},
    {'osver': '25.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam-runtime', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-7ubuntu4.3'},
    {'osver': '25.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam0g', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-7ubuntu4.3'},
    {'osver': '25.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam0g-dev', 'pkgver': '1.5.3-7ubuntu4.3'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var osver = NULL;
  var pkgname = NULL;
  var pkgver = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cves'])) cves = package_array['cves'];
  if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
    if (deb_check(release:osver, prefix:pkgname, reference:pkgver, cves:cves)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  var extra = '';
  extra += ubuntu_report_get();
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : extra
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'libpam-cracklib / libpam-modules / libpam-modules-bin / etc');
}

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19 Jun 2025 00:00Current
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Vulners AI Score7.7
CVSS 3.17.8
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