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High · 8.1 CVE-2026-58086 EUVD-2026-62340GHSA-5q67-rff6-c784

ktrace(2) privilege incorrectly validated in jails

Published Aug 19, 2026 · Updated Aug 27, 2026 · Assigned by freebsd

Description

As an inadvertent side effect of an unrelated code change, PRIV_KTRACE was always denied to a jailed root user. Tracing configured by a jailed root user was therefore not flagged as privileged.

An unprivileged user in a jail that has permission to debug the target process can modify the jailed root user's ktrace(2) flags, or disable tracing outright. A jailed root user therefore cannot reliably trace unprivileged processes.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
FreeBSD FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE – < p2, 15.0-RELEASE – < p12 p2

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