CVE-2025-53881

SUSE-specific logrotate configuration allows escalation from mail user/group to root

State: Published
Severity: 6.9 Medium
Published: Oct 2, 2025
Updated: Oct 2, 2025
Reserved: Jul 11, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.9 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	suse

Weaknesses

CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

Affected Products

Product	Versions
TumbleweedopenSUSE	? to before 4.98.2-lp156.248.1Affected

References

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

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