CVE-2002-0755 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00067.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Freebsd Subscribe	Freebsd Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.4:release::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.5:release::::::

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2002-0747	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

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

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:03:47.928Z

Reserved: 2002-07-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-0755

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2002-08-12T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2002-0755

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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