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CVE-2002-0755

Published

21 years ago

Last Modified

15 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity: High
Base Score: 7.2/10
Exploit Score: 3.9/10
Access Vector: Local
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication Required: None
Impact Score: 10/10
Confidentiality Impact: Complete
Availability Impact: Complete
Integrity Impact: Complete

Products Affected

CPE	Affected	Vulnerable	Excluding	Edit
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.5:release::::::	Yes	-	-
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.4:release::::::	Yes	-	-

References

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:24.k5su.asc
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4777
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9125.php
http://www.osvdb.org/4893