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CVE-2002-0755

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.

Published

2002-08-12T04:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.2 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	freebsd	freebsd	4.4	Yes
Operating System	freebsd	freebsd	4.5	Yes

References

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:24.k5su.asc Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9125.php Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.osvdb.org/4893 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4777 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:24.k5su.asc Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9125.php Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.osvdb.org/4893 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4777 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)