CVE-2019-15877

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-04-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r356606 and 12.1-RELEASE before 12.1-RELEASE-p3, driver specific ioctl command handlers in the ixl network driver failed to check whether the caller has sufficient privileges allowing unprivileged users to trigger updates to the device's non-volatile memory.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 12.1, 12.1-p1, 12.1-p2

References

https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:06.if_ixl_ioctl.asc
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:06.if_ixl_ioctl.asc

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