SUSE SLES12 Security Update : pam (SUSE-SU-2025:02001-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 240803

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:02001-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-6018: pam_env: Change the default to not read the user .pam_environment file (bsc#1243226).
- 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 240803

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02001-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/27/2025

Updated: 6/27/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

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: 8.4

Temporal Score: 7.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, 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

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: 6/18/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-6018

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02001-1

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