CVE-2025-23386

gerbera: Privilege escalation from user gerbera to root because of insecure %post script

7.8 HighFix available

A Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in the openSUSE Tumbleweed package gerbera allows the service user gerbera to escalate to root.,This issue affects gerbera on openSUSE Tumbleweed before 2.5.0-1.1.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Local
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: Low
User interaction: None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: High

Exploit likelihood

0.15%Up 0.1 points since Apr 10, 2025

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 7.8

gerbera: Privilege escalation from user gerbera to root because of insecure %post script

Record: CVE-2025-23386
CVSS 3.1: 7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness: CWE-276
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2025-10680 7.8

Record: EUVD-2025-10680
CVSS 3.1: 7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated: 2026-11-02

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-jrg3-gh37-h96x 7.8

A Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in the openSUSE Tumbleweed package gerbera allows...

Record: GHSA-jrg3-gh37-h96x
CVSS 3.1: 7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness: CWE-276
Updated: 2026-11-02

NVD 7.8

Record: CVE-2025-23386
CVSS 3.1: 7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness: CWE-276
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2025-23386 7.8

Record: UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23386
CVSS 3.1: 7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSVopenSUSE-SU-2025:14864-1 No score

gerbera-2.5.0-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the gerbera-2.5.0-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record: openSUSE-SU-2025:14864-1
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

suse opensuse tumbleweed

Affected packages

Affected packages
Package	Affected	Fixed
`gerbera` Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	All versions, plus listed versions 1.1.0+dfsg-2	None known
`gerbera` Ubuntu:20.04:LTS	All versions, plus listed versions 1.1.0+dfsg-3build31.1.0+dfsg-3build41.1.0+dfsg-3ubuntu11.1.0+dfsg-3ubuntu2	None known
`gerbera` Ubuntu:22.04:LTS	All versions, plus listed versions 1.1.0+dfsg-3ubuntu21.1.0+dfsg-3ubuntu31.1.0+dfsg-3ubuntu4	None known
`gerbera` Ubuntu:24.04:LTS	All versions, plus listed versions 1.12.1+dfsg-11.12.1+dfsg-1build11.12.1+dfsg-22.0.0+dfsg-12.0.0+dfsg-1build22.0.0+dfsg-1build3	None known
`gerbera` Ubuntu:25.10	All versions, plus listed versions 2.4.1+dfsg-1	None known
`gerbera` Ubuntu:26.10	All versions, plus listed versions 2.4.1+dfsg-1build12.4.1+dfsg-2	None known
`gerbera` Ubuntu:26.04:LTS	All versions, plus listed versions 2.4.1+dfsg-12.4.1+dfsg-1build1	None known
`gerbera` openSUSE:Tumbleweed	before 2.5.0-1.1	2.5.0-1.1

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2025-23386 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) in Suse Opensuse Tumbleweed, published March 10, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.15%, the 4th percentile. Fixed in gerbera 2.5.0-1.1.