CVEvulnerability
CVE-2002-0755
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2002-08-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 4.4
• freebsd freebsd 4.5
References
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:24.k5su.asc Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9125.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/4893 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4777 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:24.k5su.asc Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9125.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/4893 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4777 Patch, Vendor Advisory