CVE-2002-0755

HighCVSS 7.2/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.2/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9125.phpPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/4893
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4777Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9125.phpPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/4893
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4777Patch, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 12, 2002
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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