CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-2012

7.2 HIGH Published 2004-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-12-31
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

The systrace_exit function in the systrace utility for NetBSD-current and 2.0 before April 16, 2004, and certain FreeBSD ports, does not verify the owner of the /dec/systrace connection before setting euid to 0, which allows local users to gain root privileges.

Affected configurations

• niels provos systrace 1.1 • niels provos systrace 1.2 • niels provos systrace 1.3 • niels provos systrace 1.4 • niels provos systrace 1.5 • vladimir kotal systrace port for freebsd 2004-03-09 • vladimir kotal systrace port for freebsd 2004-06-02 • netbsd netbsd 2.0

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-283 Unverified Ownership weakness

References