Executive Summary

Summary
Title D-Bus: Authentication bypass
Informations
Name GLSA-201909-08 First vendor Publication 2019-09-08
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2019-09-08
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 3.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

An authentication bypass was discovered in D-Bus.

Background

D-Bus is a message bus system which processes can use to talk to each other.

Description

It was discovered that a local attacker could manipulate symbolic links in their own home directory to bypass authentication and connect to a DBusServer with elevated privileges.

Impact

A local attacker can bypass authentication mechanisms and elevate privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All D-Bus users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/dbus-1.12.16"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2019-12749 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12749

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-08

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201909-08.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 122
Os 4

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Date Informations
2019-09-08 21:18:55
  • First insertion