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CVE-2020-35512

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-35512 is a use-after-free vulnerability affecting D-Bus development branches up to 1.13.16, stable branch 1.12.x up to 1.12.18, and older branches up to 1.10.30. This flaw occurs when multiple usernames share the same UID and policy rules reference these usernames, leading to memory being freed while still in use, potentially causing crashes or undefined behavior. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it has a local attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.12.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.12.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
25.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0033 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: dbus

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-35512Low

dbus: users with the same numeric UID could lead to use-after-free and undefined behaviour

Jun 30, 2020

References

bugs.gentoo.org / 755392
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
gitlab.freedesktop.org / dbus/dbus/-/issues/305
security-tracker.debian.org / tracker/CVE-2020-35512