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CVE-2020-25584

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: 2021-04-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

In FreeBSD 13.0-STABLE before n245118, 12.2-STABLE before r369552, 11.4-STABLE before r369560, 13.0-RC5 before p1, 12.2-RELEASE before p6, and 11.4-RELEASE before p9, a superuser inside a FreeBSD jail configured with the non-default allow.mount permission could cause a race condition between the lookup of ".." and remounting a filesystem, allowing access to filesystem hierarchy outside of the jail.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: before 11.4; from 12.0 before 12.2; 11.4, 11.4-beta1, 11.4-p1, 11.4-p2, 11.4-p3, 11.4-p4 (+15) — fixed in 11.4, 12.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: FreeBSD 11.4, 12.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-21:10.jail_mount.asc
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210423-0009/
• https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-21:10.jail_mount.asc
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210423-0009/

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