CVE-2025-53881mediumCWE-61

CVE-2025-53881: medium-severity vulnerability in openSUSE Tumbleweed

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

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 6.9epss 0.2%
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:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
openSUSE · Tumbleweed
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