CVE-2009-0489

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-02-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

The DBus configuration file for Wicd before 1.5.9 allows arbitrary users to own org.wicd.daemon, which allows local users to receive messages that were intended for the Wicd daemon, possibly including credentials.

Affected products

David Paleino Wicd: through 1.5.8; 1.2.7, 1.3.1, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.5.0 (+7)

References

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~wicd-devel/wicd/trunk/revision/222
http://secunia.com/advisories/33870
http://secunia.com/advisories/34685
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-12.xml
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=194573&release_id=659059
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/06/4
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~wicd-devel/wicd/trunk/revision/222
http://secunia.com/advisories/33870
http://secunia.com/advisories/34685
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-12.xml
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=194573&release_id=659059
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/06/4

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