Incorrect Privilege Assignment Affecting freebsd package, versions [,14.3.0-p15)[14.4.0,14.4.0-p6)[15.0.0,15.0.0-p10)[15.1.0,15.1-RC3-p1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-17660815
  • published28 Jun 2026
  • disclosed27 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-45259  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-266  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freebsd to version 14.3.0-p15, 14.4.0-p6, 15.0.0-p10, 15.1-RC3-p1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Privilege Assignment in the sigqueue process. An attacker can interfere with other processes by sending unauthorized signals, such as SIGKILL or SIGSTOP, to processes running as the same user or, in the case of a superuser sandboxed process, to any process, by bypassing intended sandbox restrictions.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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