CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-4948
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-03-27
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-279
Description
A flaw was found in firewalld. A local unprivileged user can exploit this vulnerability by mis-authorizing two runtime D-Bus (Desktop Bus) setters, setZoneSettings2 and setPolicySettings. This mis-authorization allows the user to modify the runtime firewall state without proper authentication, leading to unauthorized changes in network security configurations.
Affected configurations
• firewalld firewalld (<= 2.4.0)
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-279 Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2026:28238 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67585 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67843 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:76844 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4948 Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452086 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/05/msg00029.html lists.debian.org