Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

An update for pam is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the C...

SUSE SLED15: pam / pam-32bit / pam-devel / pam-devel-32bit / pam-doc / pam-extra / etc (SUSE-SU-2025:02970-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02970-1 advisory. - Improve previous CVE-2024-10041 fix which led to CPU performance issues bsc1232234 Tenable has extract...

ALSA-2025:14557 Important: pam security update

Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication. Security Fixes: linux-pam: Linux-pam directory Traversal CVE-2025-6020 For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS...

RHEL 8 : pam (RHSA-2025:14557)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:14557 advisory. Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle...

Important: pam security update

Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system to set up authentication policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication. Security Fixes: linux-pam: Linux-pam directory Traversal CVE-2025-6020 For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS...

Security update for pam

This update for pam fixes the following issues: Improve previous CVE-2024-10041 fix which led to CPU performance issues bsc1232234 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST onlineupdate or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the...

SUSE-SU-2025:02970-1 Security update for pam

This update for pam fixes the following issues: - Improve previous CVE-2024-10041 fix which led to CPU performance issues bsc1232234...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-2790

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL component: Server: Pluggable Auth. Supported versions that are affected are 5.7.28 and prior. Easily...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-14553

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL component: Server: Pluggable Auth. Supported versions that are affected are 5.7.30 and prior and 8.0.2...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-10155

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Server: Pluggable Auth. Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.37 and earlier an...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-0639

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.6.29 and earlier and 5.7.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availabili...

CVE-2025-8941

A flaw was found in linux-pam. The pamnamespace module may improperly handle user-controlled paths, allowing local users to exploit symlink attacks and race conditions to elevate their privileges to root. This CVE provides a "complete" fix for CVE-2025-6020. Mitigation Disable the pamnamespace...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-22048

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL component: Server: Pluggable Auth. Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.33 and prior. Difficul...

📄 Oracle 19c / 21c Denial of Service

Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c proof of concept exploitation details for CVE-2023-22077. It illustrates that even though the "Lockdown Profile" security feature was in-place to restrict OS accessibility, an attacker is able to cause a denial of service attack that can impact all customers...

New ‘Plague’ PAM Backdoor Exposes Critical Linux Systems to Silent Credential Theft

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Linux backdoor dubbed Plague that has managed to evade detection for a year. "The implant is built as a malicious PAM Pluggable Authentication Module, enabling attackers to silently bypass system authentication and gain persistent S...

PAM-PKCS#11 Authentication Bypass

The vulnerability of the PAM-PKCS11 authentication module in Linux operating systems is related to deficiencies in the authentication process. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to bypass the authentication process remotely...

CVE-2025-6018

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,...

CVE-2025-6018

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,...

CVE-2025-6018: Incorrect Authorization

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,...

Logwatch 7.13

Logwatch analyzes and reports on unix system logs. It is a customizable and pluggable log monitoring system which will go through the logs for a given period of time and make a customizable report. It should work right out of the package on most systems...