Yggdrasil: local privilege escalation in yggdrasil (yggdrasil)

CVE-2025-3931
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 8 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Deferred

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-280 — Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hredhat
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

Advisories

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
yggdrasilaffected 0 < 0.4.7
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10unaffected 0:0.4.5-3.el10_0 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD