Improper Check for Dropped Privileges Affecting freebsd package, versions [,14.4.0-p9)[15.0.0,15.0.0-p13)[15.1.0,15.1.0-p3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-19427770
  • published29 Aug 2026
  • disclosed26 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-58089  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-273  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freebsd to version 14.4.0-p9, 15.0.0-p13, 15.1.0-p3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Check for Dropped Privileges in the hwpmc process during exec credential transitions. An attacker can continue monitoring a process after it executes a setuid or setgid binary by attaching PMCs as an unprivileged user.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1