In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r349628, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p7, 11.3-PRERELEASE before r349629, 11.3-RC3 before 11.3-RC3-p1,…

Description

In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r349628, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p7, 11.3-PRERELEASE before r349629, 11.3-RC3 before 11.3-RC3-p1, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p11, a bug in the cdrom driver allows users with read access to the cdrom device to arbitrarily overwrite kernel memory when media is present thereby allowing a malicious user in the operator group to gain root privileges.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.0% · top 9.4% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• Privilege escalation
• CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs
• CWE-863 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-863 and its CVEs

Affected products

• FreeBSD · FreeBSD

  • affected FreeBSD 12.0 before 12.0-RELEASE-p7 and 11.2 before 11.2-RELEASE-p11

References (2)

• FreeBSD-SA-19:11 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153522/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-11.cd_ioctl.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2019-5602](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2019-5602.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2019-5602)

Record last updated 4 Aug 2024, 20:01 UTC.