CVE-2025-53881 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-53881: SUSE-specific logrotate configuration allows escalation from mail user/group to root

Vendor Opensuse
Product Tumbleweed
Weakness CWE-61
Published October 2, 2025
Last update October 2, 2025
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CVSS base score

6.9/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS 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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 2, 2025 CVE published
October 2, 2025 Record updated