6.9

CVE-2025-53881: opensuse tumbleweed UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

CVSS: 6.9v4.0MediumDeferred
AliasesopenSUSE-SU-2025:15626-1openSUSE-SU-2025:20155-1
Published 02-10-2025Last modified 02-10-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-53881 is a medium (CVSS 6.9) UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in opensuse tumbleweed. EPSS estimates a 0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
28/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.9/10
010
Medium · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.17%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 02-10-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 02-10-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.17%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

6%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.17% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.17%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Opensuse3 products
  • tumbleweed≥ ?, < 4.98.2-lp156.248.1
  • exim&distro=openSUSE Leap 16.0< 4.98.2-bp160.2.1
  • exim&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 4.98.2-4.1

1 vendor · 3 products

References

3 links