Vulnerability in FreeBSD
CVE-2002-0754
Kerberos 5 su (k5su) in FreeBSD 4.4 and earlier relies on the getlogin system call to determine if the user running k5su is root, which could allow a root-initiated process to regain its privileges after it has dropped them.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (30.3th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 30th percentile — 30.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- FreeBSD — versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.1
- FreeBSD Heimdal — versions 0.4e
- Kth Heimdal — versions 0.4e
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/3919 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/7956.php (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)