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CVE-2014-3477

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3477 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the dbus-daemon component of D-Bus versions 1.2.x through 1.4.x, 1.6.x before 1.6.20, and 1.8.x before 1.8.4. This flaw allows a local attacker to cause a service initialization failure and exit, or potentially conduct a side-channel attack, by sending a D-Bus message to an inactive service. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0 (Medium) with a low attack complexity and local attack vector, primarily impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:d-bus_project:d-bus:1.2.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:d-bus_project:d-bus:1.2.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.4.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:d-bus_project:d-bus:1.2.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0044 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 3,049 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: dbus
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: dbus
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: dbus

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-3477Moderate

dbus: denial of service flaw in dbus-daemon

Jun 10, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0266.html
cgit.freedesktop.org / dbus/dbus/commit
Patch
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00042.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00012.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00049.html
bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q2/509
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/59428
secunia.com / advisories/59611
secunia.com / advisories/59798
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2971
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/67986