CVE-2026-4948
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.
Scoring
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS base score
- 5.5
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.12%
- CWE
- CWE-279
- Published
- 2026-03-27
- Last modified
- 2026-09-01
Affected products
- Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Weakness type
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