CVE-2026-40342 (GCVE-0-2026-40342)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-17 19:22
Modified
2026-04-22 13:56
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
Firebird is an open-source relational database management system. In versions prior to 5.0.4, 4.0.7 and 3.0.14, the external engine plugin loader concatenates a user-supplied engine name into a filesystem path without filtering path separators or .. components. An authenticated user with CREATE FUNCTION privileges can use a crafted ENGINE name to load an arbitrary shared library from anywhere on the filesystem via path traversal. The library's initialization code executes immediately during loading, before Firebird validates the module, achieving code execution as the server's OS account. This issue has been fixed in versions 5.0.4, 4.0.7 and 3.0.14.
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| FirebirdSQL | firebird |
Version: < 3.0.14 Version: >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.7 Version: >= 5.0.0, < 5.0.4 |
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