CVE-2025-66004: Local privilege escalation in usbmuxd from arbitrary local user to usbmux

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-12-10 · updated 2026-10-14
Weakness: CWE-35

Description

A Path Traversal vulnerability in usbmuxd allows local users to escalate to the service user.This issue affects usbmuxd: before 3ded00c9985a5108cfc7591a309f9a23d57a8cba.

Affected products

libimobiledevice usbmuxd: before 3ded00c9985a5108cfc7591a309f9a23d57a8cba — fixed in 3ded00c9985a5108cfc7591a309f9a23d57a8cba

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: libimobiledevice usbmuxd 3ded00c9985a5108cfc7591a309f9a23d57a8cba. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-66004
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/12/msg00027.html

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