UNIX Symlink Following Vulnerability in openSUSE Tumbleweed's cyrus-imapd
CVE-2025-23394

9.8CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor

Suse
Status
Opensuse Tumbleweed
Vendor
CVE Published:
26 May 2025

What is CVE-2025-23394?

A vulnerability exists in openSUSE Tumbleweed’s cyrus-imapd that allows for the manipulation of symbolic links, which can lead to unauthorized privilege escalation from the cyrus user to root. This issue is present in versions prior to 3.8.4-2.1.

Affected Version(s)

openSUSE Tumbleweed ? < 3.8.4-2.1

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-23394

CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.8
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Matthias Gerstner, SUSE
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CVE-2025-23394 : UNIX Symlink Following Vulnerability in openSUSE Tumbleweed's cyrus-imapd