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CVE-2009-4664

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Firewall Builder 3.0.4, 3.0.5, and 3.0.6, when running on Linux, allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on an unspecified temporary file that is created by the iptables script.

Affected products

• Fwbuilder Firewall Builder: 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6

References

• http://blog.fwbuilder.org/2009/09/firewall-builder-v307-released.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035112.html
• http://osvdb.org/58247
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36809
• http://www.fwbuilder.org/docs/firewall_builder_release_notes.html#3.0.7
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36468
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0389
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524588
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53392
• http://blog.fwbuilder.org/2009/09/firewall-builder-v307-released.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035112.html
• http://osvdb.org/58247

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