CVE record · CVE-2025-8941

Linux-pam: incomplete fix for cve-2025-6020

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0028 · 20th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 13 Aug 2025, 14:42 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	Not given Package name: linux-pam https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.1.8-23.el7_9.2 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.3.1-38.el8_10 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.3.1-8.el8_2.2 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.3.1-14.el8_4.2 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.3.1-14.el8_4.2 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.3.1-16.el8_6.3 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.3.1-16.el8_6.3 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.3.1-16.el8_6.3 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.3.1-26.el8_8.2 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.3.1-26.el8_8.2 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.5.1-26.el9_6 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.5.1-26.el9_6 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.5.1-9.el9_0.3 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.5.1-15.el9_2.2 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support Package name: pam https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.5.1-24.el9_4.1 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Web Terminal 1.11 on RHEL 9 Package name: web-terminal/web-terminal-rhel9-operator https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1.11-19 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Web Terminal 1.11 on RHEL 9 Package name: web-terminal/web-terminal-tooling-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1.11-8 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Web Terminal 1.12 on RHEL 9 Package name: web-terminal/web-terminal-tooling-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1.12-4 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	cert-manager operator for Red Hat OpenShift 1.16 Package name: cert-manager/jetstack-cert-manager-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected sha256:330e8b5ab4841a21f8f5f23cc7fb192197872f11639b12bf4b1e70831f636323 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Compliance Operator 1 Package name: compliance/openshift-compliance-openscap-rhel8 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected sha256:c953e9f9abf9cf25bf65bb3ffdc86ccf49b3e69a1cf3fbb47b6972e421fd6628 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Discovery 2 Package name: discovery/discovery-server-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected sha256:c85cfbcaf7888885e57596b7b8bde3894718cfc33326499b24961a66a62cf083 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Insights proxy 1.5 Package name: insights-proxy/insights-proxy-container-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected sha256:4ca38b33efec0d2dd17a8fd822a7c18281810676ceabb0c1db90953cb91cd5ea to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.1 Package name: openshift-sandboxed-containers/osc-cloud-api-adaptor-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected sha256:24722900db1425bf0c27f6ad6f3fb7d79ff9ebc433bdab58423fa71bab76122b to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.1 Package name: openshift-sandboxed-containers/osc-monitor-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected sha256:f5e1602d72177d77f1b879c76e6f6cfbc2979c136c06ca9f03ea97ffb369b7a6 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.1 Package name: openshift-sandboxed-containers/osc-podvm-builder-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected sha256:cead623ceda4048cabaa81c371ed2a8143f5c5514276fca1d71685bd9e6d1e65 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.1 Package name: openshift-sandboxed-containers/osc-podvm-payload-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected sha256:59fb1f7f1653361d94f7d48b42d8fe19ed3263c1c78654837c11f2135544c1ac to before * rpm Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2025-8941
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-22
Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions
Path traversal
Published: 13 Aug 2025
Updated: 26 Feb 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0028, the 20th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 13 Aug 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:14557 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15099 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15100 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15101 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15102 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15103 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15104 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15105 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15106 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15107 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15709 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15827 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15828 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16524 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17181 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:18219 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21885 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8941 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2388220 issue-trackingredhat

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