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5.5Medium CVE-2026-4948 Firewalld

A flaw was found in firewalld.

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.

What happened

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.

Does it affect you

Not enough information

No products recorded, so this cannot be matched against anything.

What to do

  • Follow the vendor advisory for the fixed release and any interim mitigation.
    access.redhat.com
  • Follow the vendor advisory for the fixed release and any interim mitigation.
    bugzilla.redhat.com

Vendor's affected list

rhel
Exactly 7.0

Sources

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