Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-224

Allowed

Obscured Security-relevant Information by Alternate Name

Abstraction: Base · Status: Incomplete

The product records security-relevant information according to an alternate name of the affected entity, instead of the canonical name.

1 vulnerability references this CWE, most recent first.

CVE-2026-49426 (GCVE-0-2026-49426)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-19 06:04 – Updated: 2026-08-19 06:04
VLAI
Title
Incorrect audit records for ptrace(2) syscall requests
Summary
When auditing a system call executed via ptrace(PT_SC_REMOTE), the kernel passed the return value of an internal setup function to AUDIT_SYSCALL_EXIT() rather than the actual result of the executed system call. As a result, committed audit records for system calls which returned an error do not reflect the true outcome of the operation. That is, they indicate that the operation succeeded when it in fact failed. Audit records for system calls executed via ptrace(PT_SC_REMOTE) may show an incorrect error status. An attacker with the ability to debug a process could use this to produce misleading audit trails, potentially undermining audit-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-223 - Omission of Security-relevant Information
  • CWE-224 - Obscured Security-relevant Information by Alternate Name
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
FreeBSD FreeBSD Affected: 15.1-RELEASE , < p1 (release)
Affected: 15.0-RELEASE , < p11 (release)
Affected: 14.4-RELEASE , < p7 (release)
Affected: 14.3-RELEASE , < p16 (release)
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Date Public
2026-06-30 20:00
Credits
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No mitigation information available for this CWE.

No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.