CVE-2021-31997: Opensuse Python-Postorius

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in python-postorius of openSUSE Leap 15.2, Factory allows local attackers to escalate from users postorius or postorius-admin to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Leap 15.2 python-postorius version 1.3.2-lp152.1.2 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory python-postorius version 1.3.4-2.1 and prior versions.

Affected products

• Opensuse Python-Postorius: before 1.3.2-lp152.1.2 (fixed in 1.3.2-lp152.1.2); up to and including 1.3.4-2.1

Published 2021-06-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.