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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.2

CVE-2009-0578 json

GNOME NetworkManager before 0.7.0.99 does not properly verify privileges for dbus (1) modify and (2) delete requests, which allows local us…

published 2009-03-05 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-0582

cvss
6.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 27%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

GNOME NetworkManager before 0.7.0.99 does not properly verify privileges for dbus (1) modify and (2) delete requests, which allows local users to change or remove the network connections of arbitrary users via unspecified vectors related to org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings and at_console.

Patch / fix

  • network-manager-applet Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.7.0.99-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0578

  • NetworkManager RHEL 5 1:0.7.0-4.el5_3
  • NetworkManager-glib RHEL 5 1:0.7.0-4.el5_3
  • NetworkManager-gnome RHEL 5 1:0.7.0-4.el5_3

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:0361

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-2009-0578 updated cvss 3.6

NetworkManager: local users can modify the connection settings

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) NetworkManager 0.7.0-4.el5_3, NetworkManager-glib 0.7.0-4.el5_3, NetworkManager-gnome 0.7.0-4.el5_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) NetworkManager 0.7.0-4.el5_3, NetworkManager-glib 0.7.0-4.el5_3, NetworkManager-gnome 0.7.0-4.el5_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) NetworkManager 0.7.0-4.el5_3, NetworkManager-glib 0.7.0-4.el5_3, NetworkManager-gnome 0.7.0-4.el5_3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:0361

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Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.