GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-rpg2-jvhp-h354 Yggdrasil Vulnerable to Local Privilege Escalation
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-3931
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/redhatinsights/yggdrasil
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-280
- Reviewed
- 2025-05-15
Affected packages
• Go github.com/redhatinsights/yggdrasil: <= 0.4.6 (no fix yet)
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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-3931 A flaw was found in Yggdrasil, which acts as a system broker, allowing the processes to communicate to other children's "worker" processes… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-280 Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3931 advisory
- https://github.com/RedHatInsights/yggdrasil/pull/336 web
- https://github.com/RedHatInsights/yggdrasil/commit/196d0cbea42f72e6dfecaa563681a99e9fdb4a38 web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7592 web
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-3931 web
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2362345 web
- https://github.com/RedHatInsights/yggdrasil package