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CVE-2014-3639

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3639 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the dbus-daemon component of D-Bus versions prior to 1.6.24 and 1.8.8, affecting various D-Bus implementations including those in openSUSE. A local attacker can exploit this by initiating numerous incomplete connections, preventing new legitimate connections and consuming system resources. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), indicating local access, low attack complexity, and a partial impact on 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
12.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.6.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:d-bus_project:d-bus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 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 0.6 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)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: dbus
redhatno patchvia 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-2014-3639Low

dbus: denial of service flaw in incomplete connection handling

Sep 16, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0395.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00026.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00049.html
bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/61378
secunia.com / advisories/61431
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