Public vulnerability disclosure

CVE-2025-3931

Yggdrasil: local privilege escalation in yggdrasil

publishedCWE-280

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.

Technical severity7.8 highCVSS 3.1 · CNA: redhat
Published2025-05-14Source updated 2026-11-04
Collected2026-11-042 attributed sources

Fixes and workarounds

Workaround

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

Source: CNA: redhat

Affected products and versions

Affected products, source version ranges and reporting authorities
ProductVersionsAuthority


yggdrasil
https://github.com/RedHatInsights/yggdrasil
≥ 0; < 0.4.7 (affected, semver)
Other versions: unaffected
CNA: redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat
yggdrasil
https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
≥ 0:0.4.5-3.el10_0; < * (unaffected, rpm)
Other versions: affected
CNA: redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat
rhc-worker-playbook
https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
Range not reported
Other versions: unaffected
CNA: redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat
rhc-worker-playbook
https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
Range not reported
Other versions: unaffected
CNA: redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat
rhc-worker-playbook
https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
Range not reported
Other versions: unaffected
CNA: redhat
Red Hat Satellite 6
Red Hat
yggdrasil
https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
Range not reported
Other versions: unaffected
CNA: redhat

Version ranges are source assertions. Check the vendor advisory and your installed configuration before determining exposure.

CVSS assessments

CVSS scores, vectors and reporting authorities
Version / scoreVectorAuthority
3.1 / 7.8
high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCNA: redhat

Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

References

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