CVE-2025-53881

MEDIUM

exim <4.98.2-lp156.248.1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v4 6.9
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.3%
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

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