CVE-2019-12749

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-59 Link Following
Publication date:
11/06/2019
Last modified:
06/12/2024

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.10.28 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.12.0 (including) 1.12.16 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.13.0 (including) 1.13.12 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*


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