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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | yggdrasil | < 0.4.7 | 0.4.7 |
| 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 | — | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Red Hat
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHEL 10 | yggdrasil +1 | 0.4.5-3.el10_0 | RHSA-2025:7592 |
AlmaLinux
Errata ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux 10 | yggdrasil +1 | 0.4.5-3.el10_0 | ALSA-2025:7592 |
Rocky Linux
Errata ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Linux 10 | yggdrasil | 0.4.5-3.el10_0 | RLSA-2025:7592 |
openSUSE
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | govulncheck-vulndb | 0.0.20250515T200012-1.1 | openSUSE-SU-2025:15135-1 |
Oracle Linux
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle Linux 10 | yggdrasil +1 | 0.4.5-3.el10_0 | ELSA-2025-7592 |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/redhatinsights/yggdrasil | <= 0.4.6 | — | GHSA-rpg2-jvhp-h354 |
| Go | github.com/redhatinsights/yggdrasil | all versions | — | GO-2025-3688 |
Advisories 6
- ALSA-2025:7592 Important: yggdrasil security update AlmaLinux Security Advisories · Oct 29, 2026
- RHSA-2025:7592 Red Hat Security Advisory: yggdrasil security update Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) · Oct 17, 2026
- openSUSE-SU-2025:15135-1 govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20250515T200012-1.1 on GA media SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Feb 5, 2026
- RLSA-2025:7592 Important: yggdrasil security update Rocky Linux Security Advisories · Oct 8, 2025
- WID-SEC-2025-1059 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Yggdrasil): Schwachstelle ermöglicht Privilegieneskalation BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Jun 29, 2025
- ELSA-2025-7592 Important: yggdrasil security update (Oracle Linux 10) Oracle Linux Security Advisories (ELSA) · Jun 27, 2025
References
- RHSA-2025:7592 vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-3931 vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2362345 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/RedHatInsights/yggdrasil/pull/336