CVE-2025-3931

Yggdrasil: local privilege escalation in yggdrasil

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 14, 2025
Updated
Nov 11, 2025
Reserved
Apr 25, 2025

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Description

A flaw was found in Yggdrasil, which acts as a system broker, allowing the processes to communicate to other children's "worker" processes through the DBus component. Yggdrasil creates a DBus method to dispatch messages to workers. However, it misses authentication and authorization checks, allowing every system user to call it. One available Yggdrasil worker acts as a package manager with capabilities to create and enable new repositories and install or remove packages.

This flaw allows an attacker with access to the system to leverage the lack of authentication on the dispatch message to force the Yggdrasil worker to install arbitrary RPM packages. This issue results in local privilege escalation, enabling the attacker to access and modify sensitive system data.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hredhat

Weaknesses

  • CWE-280 Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges

Affected Products

ProductVersions
yggdrasil
  • before 0.4.7Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat
  • 0:0.4.5-3.el10_0 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat
        Red Hat Satellite 6Red Hat

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