CVE-2020-12049

low
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
2.5

Description

An issue was discovered in dbus >= 1.3.0 before 1.12.18. The DBusServer in libdbus, as used in dbus-daemon, leaks file descriptors when a message exceeds the per-message file descriptor limit. A local attacker with access to the D-Bus system bus or another system service's private AF_UNIX socket could use this to make the system service reach its file descriptor limit, denying service to subsequent D-Bus clients.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-12049

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12049.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202006-9

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.12.18-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.12.18-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.12.18-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.12.18-1
debian debiansidfixed1.12.18-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.12.18-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.