CVE-2009-0578: Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux: version 8.10 only

Published 2009-03-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.