CVE-2014-0039: Cipherdyne Fwsnort

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in fwsnort before 1.6.4, when not running as root, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse fwsnort.conf in the current working directory.

Affected products

• Cipherdyne Fwsnort: up to and including 1.6.4; version 0.5 only; version 0.6 only; version 0.6.1 only; version 0.6.2 only; version 0.6.3 only; …

Published 2014-02-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.