TI-2025-00306 Aliases CVE-2025-0374 GHSA-2ffg-9hw7-35q4

Unprivileged access to system files

LOW 31CWE-732Published 2025-01-30 · Updated 2025-02-07

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · None · None
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

When etcupdate encounters conflicts while merging files, it saves a version containing conflict markers in /var/db/etcupdate/conflicts. This version does not preserve the mode of the input file, and is world-readable. This applies to files that would normally have restricted visibility, such as /etc/master.passwd. An unprivileged local user may be able to read encrypted root and user passwords from the temporary master.passwd file created in /var/db/etcupdate/conflicts. This is possible only when conflicts within the password file arise during an update, and the unprotected file is deleted when conflicts are resolved.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00305 23rd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed FreeBSD (FreeBSD): p1, p7, p3

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
FreeBSD	FreeBSD	14.2-RELEASE to before p1; 14.1-RELEASE to before p7; 13.4-RELEASE to before p3	p1, p7, p3	Patch available	CNA

FreeBSD VendorFreeBSD Affected 14.2-RELEASE to before p1; 14.1-RELEASE to before p7; 13.4-RELEASE to before p3 Fixed in p1, p7, p3 Patch available CNA

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd::::::::	—	—	FreeBSD

cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·FreeBSD

Remediation

Fix · CNA FreeBSD (FreeBSD) Fixed in p1, p7, p3

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

Release · 2025-01-30
FreeBSD p1, p3, p7
2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2025-00305 Buffer overflow in some filesystems via NFSPriority LOW 27
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Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-0374
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-2ffg-9hw7-35q4

References

Advisory 1

https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-25:03.etcupdate.asc

TI-2011-04182 Buffer overflow in libtelnet/encrypt.c in telnetd in FreeBSD 7.3 through 9.0, MIT… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
TI-2007-03684 Integer overflow in print-bgp.c in the BGP dissector in tcpdump 3.9.6 and earlier allows… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2002-00376 Integer overflow in xdr_array function in RPC servers for operating systems that use… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-05929 Openssh: regresshion - race condition in ssh allows rce/dos CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
TI-2003-00437 Off-by-one error in the fb_realpath() function, as derived from the realpath function in… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2003-00642 The prescan function in Sendmail 8.12.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0

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Sources

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