CVE-2025-53881

Publication date 2 October 2025

Last updated 8 October 2025


Ubuntu priority

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
exim4 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes


rodrigo-zaiden

SUSE specific issue due to logrotation configuration