Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition Affecting freebsd package, versions [,14.3.0-p16)[14.4.0,14.4.0-p7)[15.0.0,15.0.0-p11)[15.1.0,15.1.0-p1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-19427793
  • published29 Aug 2026
  • disclosed19 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-49415  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-367  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freebsd to version 14.3.0-p16, 14.4.0-p7, 15.0.0-p11, 15.1.0-p1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in the execve process. An attacker can gain elevated privileges by exploiting a race condition between the installation of a new virtual address space and the update of process credentials, allowing modification of the address space of a privileged binary before its credentials are elevated.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1