What is CVE-2025-23394?

CVE-2025-23394 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Suse Opensuse Tumbleweed, classified under UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-05-26.

How severe is CVE-2025-23394?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-23394 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Suse Opensuse Tumbleweed

CVE-2025-23394

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.

EPSS: 0.005 (38.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Suse Opensuse Tumbleweed — versions ?

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-61 — UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cve-scores

References

meissner@suse.de

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-23394?: CVE-2025-23394 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Suse Opensuse Tumbleweed, classified under UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2025-05-26.
How severe is CVE-2025-23394?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-23394 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.