Upstream information

CVE-2025-53882 at MITRE

Description

A Improper Check for Dropped Privileges vulnerability in the logrotate setup of openSUSE Tumbleweed mailman3 allows the mailman user to create files as root, allowing for a potential privilege escalation. This issue affects openSUSE Tumbleweed: from ? before 3.3.10-2.1.

Other Security Trackers

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  CNA (CISA-ADP) CNA (SUSE) SUSE
Base Score 9.1 4.4 4.4
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Network Local Local
Attack Complexity Low Low Low
Privileges Required None Low Low
User Interaction None None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High None None
Integrity Impact High Low Low
Availability Impact None Low Low
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1 3.1
CVSS v4 Scores
  CNA (SUSE) SUSE
Base Score 4.8 4.8
Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/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 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity Low Low
Attack Requirements None None
Privileges Required Low Low
User Interaction None None
Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None None
Vulnerable System Integrity Impact Low Low
Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low Low
Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None None
Subsequent System Integrity Impact None None
Subsequent System Availability Impact None None
CVSSv4 Version 4.0 4.0
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1246467 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • mailman3 >= 3.3.10-2.1
  • system-user-mailman >= 3.3.10-2.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15344

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Jul 14 14:30:25 2025
CVE page last modified: Tue Aug 26 21:28:48 2025