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
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Meta Platforms, Inc below Version: 0.0.0   
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