Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability · 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 through the DBus component.

Published May 14, 2025 · catalog updated Nov 11, 2025 · Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-3931. EPSS is 0.18%. Act only if a listed version of Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is installed.

Severity
High7.8
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.18%
Remediation
Advisory link
Affected products
vendor Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 patch: 0:0.4.5-3.el10_0

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 for

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  • vendor Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 patch: 0:0.4.5-3.el10_0patch: 0:0.4.5-3.el10_0

How to fix CVE-2025-3931

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-3931. EPSS is 0.18%. Act only if a listed version of Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 patch: 0:0.4.5-3.el10_0 patch: 0:0.4.5-3.el10_0. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.18%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

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Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. May 14, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    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 capabil

  2. Nov 11, 2025 · EUVD

    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 capabil

Sources

  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-3931

    30-day exploitation probability 0.2%

    first.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-14867

    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 authorizat

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.