First published: Tue Jul 26 2016(Updated: )
FirewallD provides dbus api for modification of configuration after user has been authenticated via polkit. This does not apply for 5 methods which can be called by any logged user using dbus api or firewall-cmd cli interface. Any predefined policy can be used, server or desktop. list of concerned dbus methods in firewalld.py addPassthrough removePassthrough addEntry removeEntry setEntries Any locally logged in user, could use the above firewalld commands to tamper or change the firewall settings. This flaw was introduced via the following commit: <a href="https://github.com/t-woerner/firewalld/commit/6b9867cd5c5e2c83adeec42666521a420e59ef11">https://github.com/t-woerner/firewalld/commit/6b9867cd5c5e2c83adeec42666521a420e59ef11</a> It affects all firewalld versions since 0.3.12
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Firewalld Firewalld | <=0.4.3.2 | |
Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop | =7.0 | |
Redhat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node | =7.0 | |
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server | =7.0 | |
Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation | =7.0 | |
redhat/firewalld | <0.4.3.3 | 0.4.3.3 |
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