CVE-2009-0489
LOW · CVSS 2.1EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-16
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (26th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-0493)
- Published
- February 9, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-0493 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- david paleino / wicd
- david paleino / wicd
- david paleino / wicd
- david paleino / wicd
- david paleino / wicd
- david paleino / wicd
- david paleino / wicd
- david paleino / wicd
- david paleino / wicd
- david paleino / wicd
- david paleino / wicd
- david paleino / wicd
- david paleino / wicd
- david paleino / wicd
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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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