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SUSE-SU-2026:1872-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2026-05-15 15:22 - Updated: 2026-05-15 15:22
Summary
Security update for firewalld
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for firewalld
Description of the patch: This update for firewalld fixes the following issue: - CVE-2026-4948: local unprivileged users can modify the runtime firewall state without proper authentication due to D-Bus setter mis-authorizations (bsc#1260903).
Patchnames: SUSE-2026-1872,SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2026-1872,SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP7-2026-1872,SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP7-2026-1872,SUSE-SLE-Module-Python3-15-SP7-2026-1872
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7:firewalld-2.0.1-150600.3.15.1.noarch
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7:firewalld-bash-completion-2.0.1-150600.3.15.1.noarch
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7:firewalld-lang-2.0.1-150600.3.15.1.noarch
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7:firewalld-zsh-completion-2.0.1-150600.3.15.1.noarch
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7:python3-firewall-2.0.1-150600.3.15.1.noarch
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7:firewall-applet-2.0.1-150600.3.15.1.noarch
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7:firewall-config-2.0.1-150600.3.15.1.noarch
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP7:firewall-macros-2.0.1-150600.3.15.1.noarch
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python 3 15 SP7:python311-firewall-2.0.1-150600.3.15.1.noarch
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact moderate

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}



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