CVE-2025-3931

Yggdrasil: local privilege escalation in yggdrasil

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.

Remediation

Workaround:

  • Mitigation is either unavailable or does not meet Red Hat Product Security standards for usability, deployment, applicability, or stability.

Category

7.8
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.1 •
EPSS 0.02%
Vendor Advisory redhat.com
Affected: Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Affected: Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Affected: Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2025-3931?
CVE-2025-3931 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2025-3931?
As a workaround for remediating CVE-2025-3931: Mitigation is either unavailable or does not meet Red Hat Product Security standards for usability, deployment, applicability, or stability.
Is CVE-2025-3931 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2025-3931 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
What software or system is affected by CVE-2025-3931?
CVE-2025-3931 affects Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.
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