Access Restriction Bypass Affecting freebsd package, versions [4.4,4.5]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2382860
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Aug 2002
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Aug 2002

CVE-2002-0755  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freebsd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Kerberos 5 su (k5su) in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier does not verify that a user is a member of the wheel group before granting superuser privileges, which could allow unauthorized users to execute commands as root.

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