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CVE-2013-2168

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-2168 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in D-Bus versions 1.4.x, 1.6.x, and 1.7.x, affecting products like freedesktop dbus and openSUSE. A local attacker can exploit a flaw in the _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound function by sending a crafted message, causing the service to crash. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 1.9, indicating a local attack vector with medium complexity and only 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
1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 71st 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 Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-2168Moderate

dbus: Crash of system services that use libdbus (DoS) due to non-portable use of va_list in UNIX format string wrapper

Jun 13, 2013

References

cgit.freedesktop.org / dbus/dbus/commit
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-June/109896.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-June/110114.html
lists.freedesktop.org / archives/dbus/2013-June/015696.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00049.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/53317
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/53832
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16881
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2707
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/06/13/2
securityfocus.com / bid/60546
securitytracker.com / id/1028667
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1874-1