CVE-2002-0755: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Kerberos 5 su (k5su) in FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier does not verify that a user is a member of the wheel group before granting superuser privileges, which could allow unauthorized users to execute commands as root.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 4.4 only; version 4.5 only

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.