8.5

CVE-2025-46810: opensuse tumbleweed UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

CVSS: 8.5v4.0HighDeferred
AliasesopenSUSE-SU-2025:15581-1
Published 02-09-2025Last modified 26-02-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-46810 is a high (CVSS 8.5) UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in opensuse tumbleweed. EPSS estimates a 0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
34/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.5/10
010
High · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.17%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 02-09-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 26-02-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of openSUSE Tumbleweed traefik2 allows the traefik user to escalate to root. This issue affects Tumbleweed: from ? before 2.11.29.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.17%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

5%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.16% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.17%

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

Opensuse2 products
  • tumbleweed≥ ?, < 2.11.29
  • traefik2&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 2.11.29-2.1

1 vendor · 2 products

References

2 links