Improper Privilege Management Affecting freebsd package, versions [8.0.0,8.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2382897
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 May 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 May 2010

CVE-2010-2022  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freebsd to version 8.1.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management jail.c in jail in FreeBSD 8.0 and 8.1-PRERELEASE, when the "-l -U root" options are omitted, does not properly restrict access to the current working directory, which might allow local users to read, modify, or create arbitrary files via standard filesystem operations.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1