Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-62161

High

Published: 06 November 2025

Published
06 November 2025
Modified
10 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 7.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0005 16.7th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-62161 is a high-severity UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following (CWE-61) vulnerability in Youki-Dev Youki. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 16.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Youki is a container runtime written in Rust. In versions 0.5.6 and below, the initial validation of the source /dev/null is insufficient, allowing container escape when youki utilizes bind mounting the container's /dev/null as a file mask. This issue is…

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fixed in version 0.5.7.

CWE(s)
CWE-61CWE-363

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

youki-dev
youki
≤ 0.5.7

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References