CVE-2020-25582
Published: 26 March 2021
Summary
CVE-2020-25582 is a high-severity Race Condition (CWE-362) vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd. Its CVSS base score is 8.7 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 39.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-18262
Vulnerability details
In FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE before r369334, 11.4-STABLE before r369335, 12.2-RELEASE before p4 and 11.4-RELEASE before p8 when a process, such as jexec(8) or killall(1), calls jail_attach(2) to enter a jail, the jailed root can attach to it using ptrace(2) before the…
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current working directory is changed.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Accurate timestamps from internal clocks enable detection of race conditions by providing reliable event ordering in audit logs.
Coordination of concurrent security activities reduces the probability that shared resources will be accessed simultaneously without proper synchronization.