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medium 4.4

CVE-2014-0039 json

Untrusted search path vulnerability in fwsnort before 1.6.4, when not running as root, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a T…

published 2014-02-08 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-0136

cvss
4.4
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 49%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • fwsnort Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.6.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0039

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-0039 updated cvss 4.4

fwsnort: configuration file can be loaded from cwd when run as a non-root user

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/mrash/fwsnort/commit/fa977453120cc48e1654f373311f9cac468d3348 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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