Critical
cyrus-imapd — security advisory
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.
- Products
- cyrus-imapd
- Affected versions
- 2.5.10-3build1, 2.5.10-3build2, 2.5.10-3ubuntu1, 2.5.10-3ubuntu1.1, 2.5.10-3ubuntu1.1+esm1, 3.0.11-1, 3.0.11-1build1, 3.0.12-1, 3.0.12-2, 3.0.12-2ubuntu2, 3.0.12-2ubuntu3, 3.0.13-2ubuntu1, 3.0.13-3ubuntu1, 3.0.13-4ubuntu1, 3.0.13-5, 3.0.13-5ubuntu0.1~esm1, 3.0.13-5ubuntu0.1~esm2, 3.10.1-2, 3.10.1-3, 3.10.1-3build1, 3.10.2-1, 3.12.1-2, 3.12.1-2build1, 3.12.1-3, 3.12.2-1, 3.12.2-1build1, 3.12.3-3build1, 3.2.6-2build1, 3.4.2-2, 3.4.2-2build1, 3.4.3-2, 3.4.3-3, 3.4.3-3build2, 3.4.3-3ubuntu0.1, 3.4.3-3ubuntu0.1+esm1, 3.4.3-3ubuntu0.3, 3.4.3-3ubuntu0.3+esm1, 3.8.0-5, 3.8.1-1, 3.8.1-1build1, 3.8.1-1build2, 3.8.1-3, 3.8.1-3build3, 3.8.2-1, 3.8.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 3.8.2-1ubuntu0.2, 3.8.2-1ubuntu0.2+esm1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-23394
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 01:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23394
cyrus-imapd
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cyrus-imapd
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cyrus-imapd
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cyrus-imapd
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cyrus-imapd
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cyrus-imapd
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cyrus-imapd
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Complete source record
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],
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"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-23394",
"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23394",
"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-23394"
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}