A flaw was found in firewalld. A local unprivileged user can exploit this vulnerability by mis-authorizing two runtime D-Bus (Desktop Bus) setters, setZoneSettings2 and setPolicySettings. This mis-authorization allows the user to modify the runtime firewall state without proper authentication, leading to unauthorized changes in network security configurations.
CVE-2026-4948
Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-03-27. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.5
- EG Score
- 5.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 2.1%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
March 27, 2026
Last Modified
May 15, 2026
References (3)
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4948
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452086
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/05/msg00029.html
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-4948(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- CVE-2026-4948Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)Medium
Firewalld: firewalld: local unprivileged user can modify firewall state due to d-bus setter mis-authorization
- GHSA-mxjh-5564-f256GitHub Security AdvisoriesMedium
A flaw was found in firewalld. A local unprivileged user can exploit this vulnerability by mis...
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
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