# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-8941"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-13T14:42:37.570Z"
updatedAt: "2026-02-26T17:48:41.074Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-8941"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-8941.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8941"
title: "Linux-pam: incomplete fix for cve-2025-6020"
summary: "A flaw was found in linux-pam. The pam_namespace module may improperly handle user-controlled paths, allowing local users to exploit symlink attacks and race conditions to elevate their privileges to root. This CVE provides a \"complete\" fix for CVE-2025-6020."
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