CVE-2025-53881

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

CVSS 6.9 MEDIUMEPSS 0.2%CWE-61

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 6.9EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Patch —

Lifecycle

Oct 02, 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

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

Affected products

openSUSE · Tumbleweed

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References

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