CVE-2025-3931CWE-280

Yggdrasil: local privilege escalation in yggdrasil

High · published May 14, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00181 · 7.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-280 · Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges
Published
2025-05-14T11:54Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 MAY 11:54Z
    Yggdrasil: local privilege escalation in yggdrasil
    cvelistv5