CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-7270
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-04-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-783
Description
An operator precedence bug in the kernel results in a scenario where a buffer overflow causes attacker-controlled data to overwrite adjacent execve(2) argument buffers.
The bug may be exploitable by an unprivileged user to obtain superuser privileges.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 13.5
• freebsd freebsd 14.3
• freebsd freebsd 14.4
• freebsd freebsd 15.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-783 Operator Precedence Logic Error weakness
References
- https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec.asc Vendor Advisory
- https://blog.calif.io/p/cve-2026-7270-how-i-get-root-on-freebsd blog.calif.io
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077971 news.ycombinator.com