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    CVE-2025-53881

    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.

    Published:Oct 2, 2025
    Last Modified:Apr 15, 2026
    EPS:Oct 2, 2025
    EPSS Score:0.00026
    CVSS Score:6.9

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Exim
    Product
    Exim
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Tumbleweed

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-27 Leveraging Race Conditions via Symbolic Links

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High