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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : pam (SUSE-SU-2025:02013-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 240745

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02013-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-6018: pam_env: Change the default to not read the user .pam_environment file (bsc#1243226).
 - CVE-2025-6020: pam_namespace: convert functions that may operate on a user-controlled path to operate on file descriptors instead of absolute path (bsc#1244509).

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243226

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1244509

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-June/040370.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6018

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6020

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 240745

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02013-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/27/2025

Updated: 6/27/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6018

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-6020

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pam-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pam, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pam-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pam-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pam-extra-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pam-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:pam-devel-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6020

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02013-1