Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-2009-4358

freebsd-update in FreeBSD 8.0, 7.2, 7.1, 6.4, and 6.3 uses insecure permissions in its working directory (/var/db/freebsd-update by default), which allows local users to read copies of sensitive files after a (1) freebsd-update fetch (fetch) or (2) freebsd-update upgrade (upgrade) operation.

EPSS: 0.003 (19.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 6.3, 6.4, 7.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FREEBSD, vendor-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)