CVE-2026-40342

CRITICAL

INFO Priority: 0.07 BB Relevance: 70/100

Published: 2026-04-17 Modified: 2026-10-26 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact Scope Change

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network

AC: Low

PR: Low

UI: None

S: Changed

C: High

I: High

A: High

Description

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.