High, CVSS 7.3crates.ioPublished
Below has Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
CVE-2025-27591 · GHSA-9mc5-7qhg-fp3w
- Affected
- crates.io below < 0.9.0
- Fixed in
- 0.9.0· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- Impact 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. Patches https://github.com/facebookincubator/below/commit/10e73a21d67baa2cd613ee92ce999cda145e1a83 This is included in version 0.9.0 Workarounds Change the permission on /var/log/below manually References https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2025-27591 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-27591
Recommended action: Upgrade to 0.9.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.