Medium (5.5) in freebsd freebsd. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 15% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)