CVE-2002-1669: Freebsd

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

pkg_add in FreeBSD 4.2 through 4.4 creates a temporary directory with world-searchable permissions, which may allow local users to modify world-writable parts of the package during installation.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 4.2 only; version 4.3 only; version 4.4 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.