CVE-2025-53881

MEDIUM

exim <4.98.2-lp156.248.1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

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.

References (1)

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

Scores

CVSS v4 6.9

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 8.0%

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-61

Status published

Products (1)

openSUSE/Tumbleweed ? - 4.98.2-lp156.248.1

Published Oct 02, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026