6.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2009-0578

Published: 05/03/2009 Updated: 29/09/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.2 | Impact Score: 9.2 | Exploitability Score: 3.1
VMScore: 552
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

GNOME NetworkManager prior to 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Moderate: NetworkManager security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated NetworkManager packages that fix two security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team ...
Debian Bug report logs - #519801 CVE-2009-0365, CVE-2009-0578 Package: network-manager-applet; Maintainer for network-manager-applet is Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculanoit> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:42:01 UTC Severity: serious ...
It was discovered that network-manager-applet did not properly enforce permissions when responding to dbus requests A local user could perform dbus queries to view other users’ network connection passwords and pre-shared keys (CVE-2009-0365) ...