CVE-2009-4358: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

freebsd-update in FreeBSD 8.0, 7.2, 7.1, 6.4, and 6.3 uses insecure permissions in its working directory (/var/db/freebsd-update by default), which allows local users to read copies of sensitive files after a (1) freebsd-update fetch (fetch) or (2) freebsd-update upgrade (upgrade) operation.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 6.3 only; version 6.4 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2009-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.