Upstream information

CVE-2025-3931 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (Red Hat)
Base Score 7.8
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
Image SL-Micro-Base
Image SL-Micro-Base-RT
Image SL-Micro-Base-RT-SelfInstall
Image SL-Micro-Base-RT-encrypted
Image SL-Micro-Base-SelfInstall
Image SL-Micro-Base-encrypted
Image SL-Micro-Base-qcow
Image SLE-Micro
Image SLE-Micro-Azure
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-Azure
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-EC2
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-GCE
Image SLE-Micro-EC2
Image SLE-Micro-GCE
  • libgnutls30 >= 3.8.3-slfo.1.1_5.1
Image SL-Micro
Image SL-Micro-Default
Image SL-Micro-Default-SelfInstall
Image SL-Micro-Default-encrypted
Image SL-Micro-Default-qcow
  • gnutls >= 3.8.3-slfo.1.1_5.1
  • libgnutls30 >= 3.8.3-slfo.1.1_5.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20250814T182633-160000.1.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 GA govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20250814T182633-160000.1.2
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20250515T200012-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15135

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 govulncheck-vulndb Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 govulncheck-vulndb Affected

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed May 14 14:00:09 2025
CVE page last modified: Mon May 11 18:46:08 2026