CVE-2019-5602: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r349628, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p7, 11.3-PRERELEASE before r349629, 11.3-RC3 before 11.3-RC3-p1, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p11, a bug in the cdrom driver allows users with read access to the cdrom device to arbitrarily overwrite kernel memory when media is present thereby allowing a malicious user in the operator group to gain root privileges.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 11.2 only; version 11.3 only; version 12.0 only

Published 2019-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.