CVE-2025-1390

MEDIUM

PAM pam_cap.so - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The PAM module pam_cap.so of libcap configuration supports group names starting with “@”, during actual parsing, configurations not starting with “@” are incorrectly recognized as group names. This may result in nonintended users being granted an inherited capability set, potentially leading to security risks. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to achieve local privilege escalation on systems where /etc/security/capability.conf is used to configure user inherited privileges by constructing specific usernames.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 4.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-284
Status published
Products (1)
OpenAnolis/Anolis OS 2.73;0
Published Feb 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026