CVE-2009-4502: Zabbix

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 21.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The NET_TCP_LISTEN function in net.c in Zabbix Agent before 1.6.7, when running on FreeBSD or Solaris, allows remote attackers to bypass the EnableRemoteCommands setting and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the argument to net.tcp.listen. NOTE: this attack is limited to attacks from trusted IP addresses.

Affected products

• Zabbix Zabbix: up to and including 1.6.6; version 1.1.2 only; version 1.1.3 only; version 1.1.4 only; version 1.1.5 only; version 1.4.2 only; …

Published 2009-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.