CVE-2026-49415

Local privilege escalation via execve(2) TOCTOU race

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Aug 19, 2026
Updated
Aug 20, 2026
Reserved
May 29, 2026

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Description

During execve(2) of a SUID binary, the new virtual address space is installed before the process credentials are updated. During this window, a process running as the same user can access the target process's memory via procfs or linprocfs, because the kernel's debugging permission check still saw the original credentials.

An unprivileged local user can exploit this race to modify the address space of a SUID binary before its credentials are elevated, potentially gaining full control of the affected system.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Affected Products

ProductVersions
FreeBSDFreeBSD
  • 15.1-RELEASE to before p1Affected
  • 15.0-RELEASE to before p11Affected
  • 14.4-RELEASE to before p7Affected
  • 14.3-RELEASE to before p16Affected

References

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