Description
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.
Published: 2019-06-11
Score: 7.1 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1818-1 dbus security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4462-1 dbus security update
EUVD 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 Ubuntu USN USN-4015-1 DBus vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4015-2 DBus vulnerability
History

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:15:00 +0000

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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:45:00 +0000

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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Freedesktop Dbus
Redhat Enterprise Linux Openshift Do Rhel Aus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-13T19:57:55.649Z

Reserved: 2019-06-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-12749

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-12-06T13:09:22.768Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2026-02-13T20:16:12.897

Link: CVE-2019-12749

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

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

Links: CVE-2019-12749 - Bugzilla

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