9.8

CVE-2025-23394: suse opensuse tumbleweed UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

CVSS: 9.8v3.1CriticalDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23394openSUSE-SU-2025:15038-1
Published 26-05-2025Last modified 27-05-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-23394 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in suse opensuse tumbleweed. EPSS estimates a 0.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.57%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20962-1

Timeline

  1. 26-05-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 27-05-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in openSUSE Tumbleweed cyrus-imapd allows escalation from cyrus to root.This issue affects openSUSE Tumbleweed cyrus-imapd before 3.8.4-2.1.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.57%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

46%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.57% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.57%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Opensuse1 product
  • cyrus-imapd&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 3.8.4-2.1
Suse1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • cyrus-imapdAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

4 links