Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package polkit (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-POLKIT-13176039
- published1 Oct 2025
- disclosed7 Aug 2025
Introduced: 7 Aug 2025
CVE-2025-54798 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream polkit package and not the polkit package as distributed by RHEL.
tmp is a temporary file and directory creator for node.js. In versions 0.2.3 and below, tmp is vulnerable to an arbitrary temporary file / directory write via symbolic link dir parameter. This is fixed in version 0.2.4.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2386976
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-54798
- https://github.com/raszi/node-tmp/commit/188b25e529496e37adaf1a1d9dccb40019a08b1b
- https://github.com/raszi/node-tmp/issues/207
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00007.html
- https://github.com/raszi/node-tmp/security/advisories/GHSA-52f5-9888-hmc6