CVE-2023-5978

HIGH

FreeBSD 13.0-13.2 - Improper Privilege Management in cap_net libcasper Service

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In versions of FreeBSD 13-RELEASE before 13-RELEASE-p5, under certain circumstances the cap_net libcasper(3) service incorrectly validates that updated constraints are strictly subsets of the active constraints.  When only a list of resolvable domain names was specified without setting any other limitations, an application could submit a new list of domains including include entries not previously listed.  This could permit the application to resolve domain names that were previously restricted.

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 36.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (2)
freebsd/freebsd 13.2 (5 CPE variants)
freebsd/freebsd 13.0 - 13.2
Published Nov 08, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026