# CVE-2020-25582: Race condition in FreeBSD

> A race condition in FreeBSD allows a jailed root to escape the jail via ptrace before the working directory changes, leading to privilege escalation.

- **Severity:** High 8.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 26 Mar 2021
- **Updated:** 4 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2jmw-7gh4-3h48

## What is CVE-2020-25582?

CVE-2020-25582 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 26 Mar 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE before r369334, 11.4-STABLE before r369335, 12.2-RELEASE before p4 and 11.4-RELEASE before p8 when a process, such as jexec(8) or killall(1), calls jail_attach(2) to enter a jail, the jailed root can attach to it using ptrace(2) before the current working directory is changed.

Weakness: CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-25582?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Freebsd Freebsd.

## How do I fix CVE-2020-25582?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-25582 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2020-25582 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-25582 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Freebsd Freebsd

- [CVE-2018-17160](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-17160/): Memory corruption in FreeBSD (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2014-3954](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3954/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2006-4304](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-4304/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2006-0226](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-0226/): Integer overflow in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2004-0002](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0002/): Denial of service in n/a (critical 10.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-25582 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2020-25582 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 26 Mar 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-25582 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Freebsd Freebsd. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-25582/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-25582/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25582
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25582
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-25582

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-25582/
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