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CVE-2014-3636

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3636 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting D-Bus versions 1.3.0 through 1.6.23 and 1.8.0 through 1.8.7, impacting various D-Bus implementations including those from freedesktop and openSUSE. A local attacker can exploit this by either queuing the maximum number of file descriptors, preventing new connections and dropping existing ones, or by sending multiple messages that collectively exceed the allowed number of file descriptors in a single sendmsg call, leading to a disconnect. Rated with a CVSS score of 1.9, this vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires local access, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.6.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:d-bus_project:d-bus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.9LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0051 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-3636Low

dbus: denial of service by queuing or splitting file descriptors

Sep 16, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0395.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00049.html
bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/61378
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3026
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/09/16/9
securitytracker.com / id/1030864
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2352-1