CVE record · CVE-2026-4948

Firewalld: firewalld: local unprivileged user can modify firewall state due to d-bus setter mis-authorization

CVSS 5.5 MediumEPSS 0.0013 · 2nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 27 Mar 2026, 05:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: firewalld https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:2.4.2-1.el10_2 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support Package name: firewalld https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:2.3.1-1.el10_0.1 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: firewalld https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.3.4-20.el9_8 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: firewalld https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.3.4-20.el9_8 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support Package name: firewalld https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.3.4-15.el9_6.1 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: firewalld https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: firewalld https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Package name: openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Package name: openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unknown

Identifiers: CVE-2026-4948
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-279
Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
CWE-279
Published: 27 Mar 2026
Updated: 5 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.5	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0013, the 2nd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

27 Mar 2026, 05:30 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
27 Mar 2026, 06:16 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2026:28238 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67585 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67843 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:76844 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4948 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452086 issue-trackingredhat

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.