Medium severity · published Oct 2, 2025
CVE-2025-53881
SUSE-specific logrotate configuration allows escalation from mail user/group to root
6.9
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 6% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TU
Tumbleweed · openSUSE
? before 4.98.2-lp156.248.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53881
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53881
bugzilla.suse.com
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-53881
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