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CVE-2009-4145

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-4145 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in nm-connection-editor within NetworkManager 0.7.x, affecting GNOME NetworkManager. This flaw allows local users to intercept sensitive data, such as Wi-Fi passwords, by monitoring D-Bus signals when actions are performed in the connection editor GUI. With a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), it requires local access and has a low impact of partial confidentiality loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:networkmanager:0.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: NetworkManager-1:0.7.0-9.el5_4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-4145Moderate

NetworkManager: information disclosure by nm-connection-editor

Dec 10, 2009

References

git.gnome.org / browse/network-manager-applet/commit
Patch
git.gnome.org / browse/network-manager-applet/commit
Patch
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00000.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/37819
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/38420
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/54898
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10539
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2009/12/16/3
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0108.html
securityfocus.com / bid/37580