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CVE-2025-54867
Youki Symlink Following Vulnerability
High7.0EPSS 0.19%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
Youki is a container runtime written in Rust. Prior to version 0.5.5, if /proc and /sys in the rootfs are symbolic links, they can potentially be exploited to gain access to the host root filesystem. This issue has been patched in version 0.5.5.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.19% · top 91% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- crates.ioyoukiGHSA-j26p-6wx7-f3pw (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/security/advisories/GHSA-j26p-6wx7-f3pw (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/commit/0d9b4f2aa5ceaf988f3eb568711d2acf0a4ace37 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/youki-dev/youki/releases/tag/v0.5.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-j26p-6wx7-f3pw (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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