CVE-2014-0039

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-02-08 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in fwsnort before 1.6.4, when not running as root, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse fwsnort.conf in the current working directory.

Affected products

Cipherdyne Fwsnort: through 1.6.4; 0.5, 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.6.3, 0.6.4 (+18)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128188.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128205.html
http://osvdb.org/102822
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/221
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65341
https://github.com/mrash/fwsnort/blob/master/ChangeLog
https://github.com/mrash/fwsnort/commit/fa977453120cc48e1654f373311f9cac468d3348
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128188.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128205.html
http://osvdb.org/102822
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/221
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65341

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