CVE-2009-4664
LOW · CVSS 3.3EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (29th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-4629)
- Published
- March 3, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-4629 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fwbuilder / firewall builder
- fwbuilder / firewall builder
- fwbuilder / firewall builder
- linux / linux kernel
References
- http://blog.fwbuilder.org/2009/09/firewall-builder-v307-released.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035112.html
- http://osvdb.org/58247
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36809(Vendor Advisory)
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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