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.
Project Subscriptions
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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Debian DLA |
DLA-1818-1 | dbus security update |
Debian DSA |
DSA-4462-1 | dbus security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2019-4335 | 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. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-4015-1 | DBus vulnerability |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-4015-2 | DBus vulnerability |
Fixes
Solution
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2026-02-13T19:57:55.649Z
Reserved: 2019-06-06T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2019-12749
Updated: 2024-12-06T13:09:22.768Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2019-06-11T17:29:00.517
Modified: 2026-02-13T20:16:12.897
Link: CVE-2019-12749
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Debian DLA
Debian DSA
EUVD
Ubuntu USN