openSUSE Tumbleweed up to 2.11.28 symlink

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in openSUSE Tumbleweed up to 2.11.28 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to symlink. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-46810. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in openSUSE Tumbleweed up to 2.11.28. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a symlink vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-61. The product, when opening a file or directory, does not sufficiently account for when the file is a symbolic link that resolves to a target outside of the intended control sphere. This could allow an attacker to cause the product to operate on unauthorized files. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was disclosed by Johannes Segitz. The advisory is shared at bugzilla.suse.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-46810 since 04/30/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 2.11.29 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-26380). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.5

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Symlink
CWE: CWE-61 / CWE-59
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Tumbleweed 2.11.29

Timelineinfo

04/30/2025 CVE reserved
09/02/2025 +125 days Advisory disclosed
09/02/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
09/02/2025 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: bugzilla.suse.com
Researcher: Johannes Segitz
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-46810 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-46810
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-322157
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/02/2025 14:09
Updated: 09/02/2025 15:33
Changes: 09/02/2025 14:09 (67), 09/02/2025 15:33 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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