CVE-2026-40342

Name	CVE-2026-40342
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	1134332, 1134333

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
firebird3.0 (PTS)	bullseye	3.0.7.33374.ds4-2	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	3.0.7.33374.ds4-2+deb11u1	vulnerable
	bookworm	3.0.11.33637.ds4-2+deb12u1	vulnerable
	trixie	3.0.12.ds7-13+deb13u1	vulnerable
	forky, sid	3.0.14.ds7-1	fixed
firebird4.0 (PTS)	trixie (security), trixie	4.0.5.3140.ds6-17+deb13u1	vulnerable
	forky, sid	4.0.7.3271.ds6-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
firebird3.0	source	(unstable)	3.0.14.ds7-1			1134333
firebird4.0	source	(unstable)	4.0.7.3271.ds6-1			1134332

https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/security/advisories/GHSA-7pxc-h3rv-r257