CVE-2025-27591
Severity Score
7.8
*CVSS v3
Exploit Likelihood
*EPSS
Affected Versions
*CPE
Public Exploits
0
*Multiple Sources
Exploited in Wild
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*KEV
Decision
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*SSVC
Descriptions
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.
*Credits:
N/A
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* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
- Decision:-
Exploitation
Automatable
Tech. Impact
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
- 2025-03-03 CVE Reserved
- 2025-03-11 CVE Published
- 2025-03-12 CVE Updated
- 2025-03-12 EPSS Updated
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- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
CAPEC
References (2)
| URL | Tag | Source |
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| https://github.com/facebookincubator/below/commit/da9382e6e3e332fd2c3195e22f34977f83f0f1f3 | X_refsource_misc | |
| https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2025-27591 | X_refsource_confirm |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | ||||||
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| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
| Meta Platforms, Inc Search vendor "Meta Platforms, Inc" | Below Search vendor "Meta Platforms, Inc" for product "Below" | >= 0.0.0 < 0.9.0 Search vendor "Meta Platforms, Inc" for product "Below" and version " >= 0.0.0 < 0.9.0" | en |
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