Upstream information

CVE-2025-53881 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

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

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v4 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (SUSE)
Base Score 6.9
Vector 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
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Attack Requirements None
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact High
Vulnerable System Integrity Impact Low
Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low
Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None
Subsequent System Integrity Impact None
Subsequent System Availability Impact None
CVSSv4 Version 4.0
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1246457 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP6
  • exim >= 4.98.2-bp156.5.1
  • eximon >= 4.98.2-bp156.5.1
  • eximstats-html >= 4.98.2-bp156.5.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2025-408
openSUSE Leap 15.6
  • exim >= 4.98.2-bp156.5.1
  • eximon >= 4.98.2-bp156.5.1
  • eximstats-html >= 4.98.2-bp156.5.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2025-408
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • exim >= 4.98.2-4.1
  • eximon >= 4.98.2-4.1
  • eximstats-html >= 4.98.2-4.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15626

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP6 exim Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Jul 14 13:15:06 2025
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 18:12:10 2025