CVE-2025-53882 Privilege escalation in openSUSE Tumbleweed
The mailman user can send SIGHUP to arbitrary processes due to insecure logrotate configuration, potentially causing service disruption or privilege escalation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-53882?
CVE-2025-53882 is a medium-severity vulnerability in openSUSE Tumbleweed, published on 23 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision vulnerability in the logrotate configuration for openSUSE mailman3 package allows the mailman user to sent SIGHUP to arbitrary processes. This issue affects openSUSE Tumbleweed: from ? before 3.3.10-2.1.
Weakness: CWE-807
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-53882?
Linux distribution packages (1)
python-mailman openSUSE:Tumbleweed | All versions | 3.3.10-2.1 |
How do I fix CVE-2025-53882?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2025-53882 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-53882 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jp65-2h7q-qfg7, openSUSE-SU-2025:15344-1.