CVE-2014-0039

medium

Published 2014-02-08 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.4

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.6.4-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.6.4-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.6.4-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.6.4-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.6.4-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`{"endIncluding":"1.6.4"}`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`0.5`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`0.6`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`0.6.1`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`0.6.2`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`0.6.3`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`0.6.4`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`0.6.5`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`0.7.0`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`0.8.0`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`0.8.1`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`0.8.2`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`0.9.0`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`1.0`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`1.0.1`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`1.0.2`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`1.0.3`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`1.0.4`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`1.0.5`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`1.0.6`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`1.5`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`1.6`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`1.6.1`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`1.6.2`
cipherdyne	fwsnort	`1.6.3`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.