Upstream information

CVE-2025-27591 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  CNA (CISA-ADP)
Base Score 6.8
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact Low
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1236109 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Jan 20 13:45:34 2025
CVE page last modified: Fri May 9 18:16:47 2025