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GHSA-5Q67-RFF6-C784

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-19 09:31 – Updated: 2026-08-19 09:31

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As an inadvertent side effect of an unrelated code change, PRIV_KTRACE was always denied to a jailed root user. Tracing configured by a jailed root user was therefore not flagged as privileged.

An unprivileged user in a jail that has permission to debug the target process can modify the jailed root user's ktrace(2) flags, or disable tracing outright. A jailed root user therefore cannot reliably trace unprivileged processes.

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  "id": "GHSA-5q67-rff6-c784",
  "modified": "2026-08-19T09:31:23Z",
  "published": "2026-08-19T09:31:23Z",
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CVE-2026-58086 (GCVE-0-2026-58086)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-19 07:42 – Updated: 2026-08-19 07:42

Title

ktrace(2) privilege incorrectly validated in jails

Summary

As an inadvertent side effect of an unrelated code change, PRIV_KTRACE was always denied to a jailed root user. Tracing configured by a jailed root user was therefore not flagged as privileged. An unprivileged user in a jail that has permission to debug the target process can modify the jailed root user's ktrace(2) flags, or disable tracing outright. A jailed root user therefore cannot reliably trace unprivileged processes.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-273 - Improper Check for Dropped Privileges

Assigner

freebsd mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-S…	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
FreeBSD	FreeBSD	Affected: 15.1-RELEASE , < p2 (release) Affected: 15.0-RELEASE , < p12 (release)

Date Public

2026-07-29 22:40

Credits

Alexander Leidinger

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CVE-2026-58086 (GCVE-0-2026-58086)

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