{"id":590,"date":"2025-06-19T03:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/?page_id=590"},"modified":"2025-06-19T03:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:33:00","slug":"new-linux-flaws-enable-full-root-access-via-pam-and-udisks-across-major-distributions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/?page_id=590","title":{"rendered":"New Linux Flaws Enable Full Root Access via PAM and Udisks Across Major Distributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two local privilege escalation (LPE) flaws that could be exploited to gain root privileges on machines running major Linux distributions.<br \/>\nThe vulnerabilities, discovered by Qualys, are listed below &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>CVE-2025-6018 &#8211; LPE from unprivileged to allow_active in SUSE 15&#8217;s Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)<br \/>\nCVE-2025-6019 &#8211; LPE from allow_active to root in<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two local privilege escalation (LPE) flaws that could be exploited to gain root privileges on machines running major Linux distributions. The vulnerabilities, discovered by Qualys, are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-590","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"kubio_ai_page_context":{"short_desc":"","purpose":"general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}