A flaw was found in GLib. The D-Bus client-side implementation of the DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 SASL authentication mechanism does not validate the cookie_context parameter received from the server. A malicious D-Bus server can supply a cookie_context containing path traversal sequences, causing the client to read an arbitrary file and exfiltrate sensitive data by verifying guessed file contents against a generated hash.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3931 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 3
- References+1 references (now 81)NVD modified 2026-10-22 21:17
- References+1 references (now 80)NVD modified 2026-10-15 17:17
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · gnome, redhatNVD modified 2026-10-14 20:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 6
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:glib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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