CVE-2025-3931: Yggdrasil: local privilege escalation in yggdrasil

Published Apr 25, 2025
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Updated

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.

Other sources

The yggdrasil application does not perform any kind of authentication or authorization check on com.redhat.Yggdrasil.Dispatch() DBus method, allowing attacker to abuse of the yggdrasil-worker-package-manager to perform a local privilege escalation

Red Hat

Affected Software

2 affected components
Yggdrasil Yggdrasil
go/github.com/redhatinsights/yggdrasil<=0.4.6

Event History

Apr 25, 2025
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·05:13 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software
May 14, 2025
CVE Published
via MITRE·11:54 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·11:54 AM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·12:15 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness
Advisory Published
via GitHub·12:31 PM
Data Sourced
via GitHub·12:31 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software

Frequently Asked Questions

1

What is the severity of CVE-2025-3931?

CVE-2025-3931 is classified as a medium severity vulnerability due to its potential to allow unauthorized message dispatch through the DBus component.

2

How do I fix CVE-2025-3931?

To fix CVE-2025-3931, update Yggdrasil to a version newer than 0.4.6 that addresses the authentication and authorization flaw.

3

What systems are affected by CVE-2025-3931?

CVE-2025-3931 affects Yggdrasil versions up to and including 0.4.6.

4

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2025-3931?

CVE-2025-3931 is an authentication and authorization vulnerability related to inter-process communication.

5

Who is the vendor for CVE-2025-3931?

The vendor for CVE-2025-3931 is Yggdrasil.

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