Severity
6.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.2%
top 56.78%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedOct 10
Latest updateOct 27

Description

An issue was discovered in D-Bus before 1.12.24, 1.13.x and 1.14.x before 1.14.4, and 1.15.x before 1.15.2. An authenticated attacker can cause dbus-daemon and other programs that use libdbus to crash by sending a message with attached file descriptors in an unexpected format.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDfreedesktop/dbus1.13.01.14.4+2
Debiandbus< 1.12.24-0+deb11u1+3

Also affects: Fedora 35, 36, 37

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
dbus vulnerabilities2022-10-27
OSV
CVE-2022-42012: An issue was discovered in D-Bus before 12022-10-10
GHSA
GHSA-7v94-mgqj-cj58: An issue was discovered in D-Bus before 12022-10-10
CVEList
CVE-2022-42012: An issue was discovered in D-Bus before 12022-10-09

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
DBus vulnerabilities2022-10-27
Microsoft
An issue was discovered in D-Bus before 1.12.24 1.13.x and 1.14.x before 1.14.4 and 1.15.x before 1.15.2. An authenticated attacker can cause dbus-daemon and other programs that use libdbus to crash b2022-10-11
Red Hat
dbus: `_dbus_marshal_byteswap` doesn't process fds in messages with "foreign" endianness correctly2022-10-05
Debian
CVE-2022-42012: dbus - An issue was discovered in D-Bus before 1.12.24, 1.13.x and 1.14.x before 1.14.4...2022
CVE-2022-42012 (MEDIUM CVSS 6.5) | An issue was discovered in D-Bus be | cvebase.io