Vulnerabilites related to Meta Platforms, Inc - below
CVE-2025-27591 (GCVE-0-2025-27591)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-11 18:29
Modified
2025-03-21 20:38
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CWE-732)
Summary
A privilege escalation vulnerability existed in the Below service prior to v0.9.0 due to the creation of a world-writable directory at /var/log/below. This could have allowed local unprivileged users to escalate to root privileges through symlink attacks that manipulate files such as /etc/shadow.
References
▼ | URL | Tags |
---|---|---|
https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2025-27591 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
https://github.com/facebookincubator/below/commit/da9382e6e3e332fd2c3195e22f34977f83f0f1f3 | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Meta Platforms, Inc | below |
Version: 0.0.0 ≤ |
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