CVE-2025-53881 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact High

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact Low

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Exim	Exim
Opensuse	Tumbleweed

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References

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

History

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 08:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Exim Exim exim Opensuse Opensuse tumbleweed
Vendors & Products		Exim Exim exim Opensuse Opensuse tumbleweed

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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.
Title		SUSE-specific logrotate configuration allows escalation from mail user/group to root
Weaknesses		CWE-61
References		https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-53881
Metrics		cvssV4_0 `{'score': 6.9, 'vector': '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'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: suse

Published: 2025-10-02T13:51:56.848Z

Updated: 2025-10-02T17:38:57.426Z

Reserved: 2025-07-11T10:53:52.681Z

Link: CVE-2025-53881

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-10-02T17:15:17.373Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-10-02T14:15:45.010

Modified: 2025-10-02T19:11:46.753

Link: CVE-2025-53881

Redhat

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