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NVD
7.8 HighCWE-121
CVE-2026-45250

FreeBSD vulnerability

FreeBSD

Status
  • Not in CISA KEV
  • Vendor fix available
Exploit probabilityEPSSchecked 22 Oct
0.2%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

Higher than 8% of scored CVEs

SeverityCVSS
7.8High

Description NVD

The setcred(2) system call is only available to privileged users. However, before the privilege level of the caller is checked, the user-supplied list of supplementary groups is copied into a fixed-size kernel stack buffer without first validating its length. If the supplied list exceeds the capacity of that buffer, a stack buffer overflow occurs. Because the bounds check on the supplementary groups list occurs after the kernel stack buffer has already been written, an unprivileged local user may trigger the overflow without holding any special privilege. Successful exploitation may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel, allowing an unprivileged local user to gain elevated privileges on the affected system.

Coverage 1 article · 1 outlet

First in our coverage: SecurityOnline, 25 MayRSS feed
  1. FreeBSD Patches Critical RCE, Privilege Escalation VulnerabilitiesSecurityOnline · first in our coverage · mentions it in passing

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