VDB-326738 · CVE-2025-53881 · Nessus 278595

openSUSE Tumbleweed up to 2.11.29 Exim Logrotate Config symlink

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in openSUSE Tumbleweed. It has been declared as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Exim Logrotate Config. Such manipulation leads to symlink. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-53881. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in openSUSE Tumbleweed. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Exim Logrotate Config. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a symlink vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-61. 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. This could allow an attacker to cause the product to operate on unauthorized files. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was presented by Matthias Gerstner. The advisory is available at bugzilla.suse.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-53881 since 07/11/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 278595 (openSUSE 16 Security Update : exim (openSUSE-SU-2025-20155-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 4.98.2-lp156.248.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (278595). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Productinfo

Vendor

openSUSE

Name

Tumbleweed

Version

License

open-source

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Symlink
CWE: CWE-61 / CWE-59
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 278595
Nessus Name: openSUSE 16 Security Update : exim (openSUSE-SU-2025-20155-1)

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Tumbleweed 4.98.2-lp156.248.1

Timelineinfo

07/11/2025 CVE reserved
10/02/2025 +83 days Advisory disclosed
10/02/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
12/13/2025 +72 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: bugzilla.suse.com
Researcher: Matthias Gerstner
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-53881 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-53881
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-326738

Entryinfo

Created: 10/02/2025 16:01
Updated: 12/13/2025 14:08
Changes: 10/02/2025 16:01 (68), 12/13/2025 14:08 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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