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openSUSE Firewalld Moderate Unprivileged Access Advisory 2026-21032-1

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2026
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A security update for openSUSE addresses moderate vulnerabilities in firewalld, enhancing system protection.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one bug fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for firewalld fixes the following issue

- CVE-2026-4948: local unprivileged users can modify firewall state due to D-Bus setter mis-authorizations

(bsc#1260903).

Patch instructions:

To install this openSUSE security update use the suse recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 16.0

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-16.0-1045=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate local privilege escalation bug fix OpenSUSE firewalld

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

firewall-applet-2.1.2-160000.3.1

firewall-config-2.1.2-160000.3.1

firewall-macros-2.1.2-160000.3.1

firewalld-2.1.2-160000.3.1

firewalld-bash-completion-2.1.2-160000.3.1

firewalld-lang-2.1.2-160000.3.1

firewalld-test-2.1.2-160000.3.1

firewalld-zsh-completion-2.1.2-160000.3.1

python3-firewall-2.1.2-160000.3.1

References

* bsc#1260903

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4948.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:21032-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate local privilege escalation bug fix OpenSUSE firewalld

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