CVE-2025-53881: A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in logrotate config in the exim package allowed privilege escalation from mail user/group to root.This…

PriorityP428medium6.9CVSS 4.0

AVLACLATNPRLUINVCHVILVALSCNSINSANEXCRXIRXARXMAVXMACXMATXMPRXMUIXMVCXMVIXMVAXMSCXMSIXMSAXSXAUXRXVXREXUX

EPSS

0.16%

5.2th percentile

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

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	exim4	—	—
opensuse	tumbleweed	>= ? < 4.98.2-lp156.248.1	4.98.2-lp156.248.1

CVSS provenance

nvdv4.06.9MEDIUMCVSS: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

vendor_debian6.9LOW

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