CVE-2025-53881

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in logrotate config in the exim package allowed privilege escalation from mail user/group to root.This issue affects Tumbleweed: from ? before 4.98.2-lp156.248.1.

Score

CVSS 4.0 6.9 Medium

Status

Deferred - meissner@suse.de

Published

2025-10-02

Last modified

2026-10-12

Weaknesses

CWE-61

Affected products

• Tumbleweed (Opensuse)

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-53881