CVE-2016-5410

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
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: 2017-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

firewalld.py in firewalld before 0.4.3.3 allows local users to bypass authentication and modify firewall configurations via the (1) addPassthrough, (2) removePassthrough, (3) addEntry, (4) removeEntry, or (5) setEntries D-Bus API method.

Affected products

Firewalld: through 0.4.3.2
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2597.html
http://www.firewalld.org/2016/08/firewalld-0-4-3-3-release
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/16/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92481
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1360135
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DPM3GUQRU2KPRXDEQLAMCDQEAIARJSBT/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZBJMYLGRVKIPJEI3VZJ4WQZT7FBQ5BKO/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-70
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2597.html
http://www.firewalld.org/2016/08/firewalld-0-4-3-3-release
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/16/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92481

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