CVE-2002-0701: Freebsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ktrace in BSD-based operating systems allows the owner of a process with special privileges to trace the process after its privileges have been lowered, which may allow the owner to obtain sensitive information that the process obtained while it was running with the extra privileges.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 6.2 only
• OpenBSD OpenBSD: any version

Published 2002-07-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.