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TI-2025-20344 Aliases CVE-2025-27512GHSA-w6fv-6gcc-x825

Zincati allows unprivileged access to rpm-ostree D-Bus `Deploy()` and `FinalizeDeployment()` methods

Priority LOW 10CWE-783Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
Present
Impact type
Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · High · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-863.

Summary

Zincati is an auto-update agent for Fedora CoreOS hosts. Zincati ships a polkit rule which allows the `zincati` system user to use the actions `org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.deploy` to deploy updates to the system and `org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.finalize-deployment` to reboot the system into the deployed update. Since Zincati v0.0.24, this polkit rule contains a logic error which broadens access of those polkit actions to any unprivileged user rather than just the `zincati` system user. In practice, this means that any unprivileged user with access to the system D-Bus socket is able to deploy older Fedora CoreOS versions (which may have other known vulnerabilities). Note that rpm-ostree enforces that the selected version must be from the same branch the system is currently on so this cannot directly be used to deploy an attacker-controlled update payload. This primarily impacts users running untrusted workloads with access to the system D-Bus socket. Note that in general, untrusted workloads should not be given this access, whether containerized or not. By default, containers do not have access to the system D-Bus socket. The logic error is fixed in Zincati v0.0.30. A workaround is to manually add a following polkit rule, instructions for which are available in the GitHub Security Advisory.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00186 8th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed zincati (coreos): 0.0.30zincati (crates.io): 0.0.30

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
coreoszincati0.0.24 to before 0.0.300.0.30Patch availableCNA
—zincati (crates.io)0.0.24 to before 0.0.300.0.30Patch availableGHSA-w6fv-6gcc-x825
  • zincati Vendorcoreos Affected 0.0.24 to before 0.0.30 Fixed in 0.0.30 Patch available CNA
  • zincati (crates.io) Vendor— Affected 0.0.24 to before 0.0.30 Fixed in 0.0.30 Patch available GHSA-w6fv-6gcc-x825

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA zincati (coreos) Fixed in 0.0.30
  • Fix · GHSA-w6fv-6gcc-x825 zincati (crates.io) Fixed in 0.0.30 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-27512
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-w6fv-6gcc-x825

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