CVE-2005-2218: Freebsd

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

The device file system (devfs) in FreeBSD 5.x does not properly check parameters of the node type when creating a device node, which makes hidden devices available to attackers, who can then bypass restrictions on a jailed process.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.2.1 only; version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only

Published 2005-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.