Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-0166 - Local Symbolic Link vulnerability in FreeBSD Jail RC.D

047910
CVSS 6.6 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
SINGLE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
freebsd

Summary

The jail rc.d script in FreeBSD 5.3 up to 6.2 does not verify pathnames when writing to /var/log/console.log during a jail start-up, or when file systems are mounted or unmounted, which allows local root users to overwrite arbitrary files, or mount/unmount files, outside of the jail via a symlink attack.