CVE-2025-53881 | THREATINT

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-07-11 | Published 2025-10-02 | Updated 2025-10-02 | Assigner suse

MEDIUM: 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-61: UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

Product status

Default status

unaffected

? (semver) before 4.98.2-lp156.248.1

affected

Credits

Matthias Gerstner of SUSE finder

References

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

cve.org (CVE-2025-53881)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-53881)

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