CVE-2019-12749

Summary

CVECVE-2019-12749
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-06-11 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:03:00 UTC
Descriptiondbus 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus All All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - CVE-2019-12749: DBusServer DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 authentication bypass MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: dbus-1.12.16-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1671-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
D-Bus: Authentication bypass (GLSA 201909-08) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
oss-security - CVE-2019-12749: DBusServer DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 authentication bypass MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1750-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1604-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: dbus-1.12.16-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 1818-1] dbus security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
USN-4015-2: DBus vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Bugtraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 4462-1] dbus security update BUGTRAQ seclists.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4462-1 dbus DEBIAN www.debian.org
USN-4015-1: DBus vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296078 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 16.4.0 Missing (CPUOCT2019)
  • 354106 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for dbus : ALAS2-2022-1870
  • 377142 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for dbus (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0097)
  • 377544 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for dbus (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0155)
  • 378281 Virtuozzo Linux Security Update for dbus-libs (VZLSA-2019:1726)
  • 500143 Alpine Linux Security Update for dbus
  • 503793 Alpine Linux Security Update for dbus
  • 710124 Gentoo Linux D-Bus Authentication bypass Vulnerability (GLSA 201909-08)
  • 900170 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for dbus 1.13.6
  • 901112 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for dbus (6371-1)
  • 902911 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for dbus (2665)
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