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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.9 Medium

CVE-2025-53881

SUSE-specific logrotate configuration allows escalation from mail user/group to root

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

openSUSE Tumbleweed

Default version status: unaffected

  • ? to < 4.98.2-lp156.248.1affected

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