CVE-2025-1390
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.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.16%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.16% probability · 5th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-284
- Source
- security@openanolis.org
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.