dbus before 1.10.28, 1.12.x before 1.12.16, and 1.13.x before 1.13.12, as used in DBusServer in Canonical Upstart in Ubuntu 14.04 (and in some, less common, uses of dbus-daemon), allows cookie spoofing because of symlink mishandling in the reference implementation of DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 in the libdbus library. (This only affects the DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 authentication mechanism.) A malicious client with write access to its own home directory could manipulate a ~/.dbus-keyrings symlink to cause a DBusServer with a different uid to read and write in unintended locations. In the worst case, this could result in the DBusServer reusing a cookie that is known to the malicious client, and treating that cookie as evidence that a subsequent client connection came from an attacker-chosen uid, allowing authentication bypass.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-06-11T16:11:45

Updated: 2024-08-04T23:32:55.158Z

Reserved: 2019-06-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-12749

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-06-11T17:29:00.517

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:03:40.170

Link: CVE-2019-12749

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2019-06-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-12749 - Bugzilla