CVE-2016-5410: Firewalld

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

firewalld.py in firewalld before 0.4.3.3 allows local users to bypass authentication and modify firewall configurations via the (1) addPassthrough, (2) removePassthrough, (3) addEntry, (4) removeEntry, or (5) setEntries D-Bus API method.

Affected products

• Firewalld Firewalld: up to and including 0.4.3.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2017-04-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.