Article 6VW6X Below: local privilege escalation (SUSE security team blog)

Below: local privilege escalation (SUSE security team blog)

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The SUSE Security Team blog has a post with adetailed analysis of a vulnerability (CVE-2025-27591)in the belowtool for recording and displaying system data.

In January 2025, Below was packaged and submitted to openSUSETumbleweed. Below runs as a systemd service with root privileges. TheSUSE security team monitors additions and changes to systemd serviceunit files in openSUSE Tumbleweed, and through this we noticedproblematic log directory permissions applied in Below's code.

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