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Arch Linux: Access restriction bypass (CVE-2019-12749)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 11, 2019
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

It has been discovered that dbus before 1.12.16 allows cookie spoofing because of symlink mishandling in the reference implementation of DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 in the libdbus library. This issue 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.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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