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CVE-2009-4502

52
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-4502 describes a critical command injection vulnerability in Zabbix Agent versions prior to 1.6.7, specifically affecting deployments on FreeBSD or Solaris. This flaw allows remote attackers to bypass the EnableRemoteCommands setting and execute arbitrary commands by injecting shell metacharacters into the net.tcp.listen argument. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.3, indicating a high severity with network-based attacks, medium complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While limited to trusted IP addresses, exploit code, including a Metasploit module, is publicly available, though there is no indication of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zabbix:zabbix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zabbix:zabbix:1.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zabbix:zabbix:1.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zabbix:zabbix:1.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zabbix:zabbix:1.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
20.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Zabbix Agent net.tcp.listen Command Injection · Sep 10, 2009
ExploitDB: EDB-16918 · Jul 3, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2056 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/37740
Vendor Advisory
support.zabbix.com / browse/ZBX-1032
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/508439
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/3514
Vendor Advisory