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openSUSE 16 Security Update : exim (openSUSE-SU-2025:20155-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 278595

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2025:20155-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-53881: Fixed a potential security issue with logfile rotation (bsc#1246457)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected exim, eximon and / or eximstats-html packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1246457

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-53881

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 278595

File Name: openSUSE-2025-20155-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/13/2025

Updated: 1/3/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-53881

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 4.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:eximstats-html, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:exim, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:eximon

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/2/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-53881