🛡️ CVE-2025-53881

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-61 NVD
N/A
CVSS Score
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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.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-53881 is classified as CWE-61: UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following. The product, when opening a file or directory, does not sufficiently account for when the file is a symbolic link that resolves to a target outside of the intended control sphere.

Affected software

CVE-2025-53881 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 2 October 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

bugzilla.suse.com

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-61
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-10-02
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown

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