CVE-2025-53881

MEDIUM EPSS 5.2%

Published Oct 2, 20259mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago

6.9 CVSS 4.0

Medium

Published Oct 2, 2025 9mo ago

Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

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.

CVSS Details

Base Score

6.9

Exploitability

—

Impact

—

Vector string

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

User Interaction None

Scope X

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability

5.2% percentile

Exploit & Patch Status

No Known Exploit

No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-61

References 1

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

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.