| Name | CVE-2025-53881 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| exim4 (PTS) | bullseye | 4.94.2-7+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 4.94.2-7+deb11u4 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 4.96-15+deb12u7 | fixed |
| trixie | 4.98.2-1 | fixed |
| forky, sid | 4.98.2-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| exim4 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- exim4 <not-affected> (SUSE-specific logrotate configuration issue)
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246457