Riskcovery

CVE-2025-0374

Unprivileged access to system files

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Jan 30, 2025
Updated
Feb 7, 2025
Reserved
Jan 10, 2025

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Description

When etcupdate encounters conflicts while merging files, it saves a version containing conflict markers in /var/db/etcupdate/conflicts. This version does not preserve the mode of the input file, and is world-readable. This applies to files that would normally have restricted visibility, such as /etc/master.passwd.

An unprivileged local user may be able to read encrypted root and user passwords from the temporary master.passwd file created in /var/db/etcupdate/conflicts. This is possible only when conflicts within the password file arise during an update, and the unprotected file is deleted when conflicts are resolved.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Affected Products

ProductVersions
FreeBSDFreeBSD
  • 14.2-RELEASE to before p1Affected
  • 14.1-RELEASE to before p7Affected
  • 13.4-RELEASE to before p3Affected

References

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