CVE-2016-5410

MEDIUM

Firewalld < 0.4.3.2 - Authentication Bypass

Title source: rule

Description

firewalld.py in firewalld before 0.4.3.3 allows local users to bypass authentication and modify firewall configurations via the (1) addPassthrough, (2) removePassthrough, (3) addEntry, (4) removeEntry, or (5) setEntries D-Bus API method.

References (8)

[Third Party Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2597.html

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] http://www.firewalld.org/2016/08/firewalld-0-4-3-3-release

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/16/3

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92481

[Issue Tracking, Patch] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1360135

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-70

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DPM3GUQRU2KPRXDEQLAMCDQEAIARJSBT/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZBJMYLGRVKIPJEI3VZJ4WQZT7FBQ5BKO/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 18.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-287

Status draft

Affected Products (5)

firewalld/firewalld < 0.4.3.2

redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop

redhat/enterprise_linux_hpc_node

redhat/enterprise_linux_server

redhat/enterprise_linux_workstation

Timeline

Published Apr 19, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026