Improper Check for Dropped Privileges Affecting freebsd package, versions [,15.0.0-p12)[15.1.0,15.1.0-p2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-19427774
  • published29 Aug 2026
  • disclosed19 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-58086  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-273  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freebsd to version 15.0.0-p12, 15.1.0-p2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Check for Dropped Privileges due to improper validation of privileges in the ktrace process within jails. An attacker can interfere with or disable tracing configured by a jailed root user by modifying the ktrace flags of processes they are permitted to debug.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1