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CVE-2025-53881

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

MEDIUM
6.9
CVSS Score
Published: October 2, 2025 at 01:51 PM UTC
Updated: October 12, 2026 at 03:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendoropenSUSE Tumbleweed

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Severity
MEDIUM6.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

openSUSE Tumbleweed· openSUSE
90%
? ≤ v < 4.98.2-lp156.248.1?
Affected range stops below 4.98.2-lp156.248.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

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

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

6.9MEDIUMsuse
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-61

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