CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-58015

MediumCVSS 5.9
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.52%

42th percentile - higher than 42% of all known CVEs

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes leakage of sensitive data by reading arbitrary files from the client system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update GLib to a patched version.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS