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high 8.5

CVE-2025-46810 json

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of openSUSE Tumbleweed traefik2 allows the traefik user to escalate…

published 2025-09-02 14 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-26380

cvss
8.5
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 5%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.11.29
  • traefik2 openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.11.29-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15581-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-46810 updated cvss 7.8

traefik: Escalation to root from traefik user via %post script

  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/traefik-rhel9, devspaces/dashboard-rhel9, devspaces/configbump-rhel9, devspaces/imagepuller-rhel9, devspaces/devspaces-rhel9-operator, devspaces-tech-preview/jetbrains-ide-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
14 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 8.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • openSUSE Tumbleweed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

References

Sources

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