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CVE-2014-7824

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7824 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting D-Bus versions 1.3.0 through 1.6.x before 1.6.26, 1.8.x before 1.8.10, and 1.9.x before 1.9.2, impacting distributions like Canonical, Debian, FreeDesktop, and Mageia. A local attacker can exploit this flaw by queuing the maximum number of file descriptors, preventing new connections and dropping existing ones. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score (2.1) due to its local attack vector and low impact (partial availability loss). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.6.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.59%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
44.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0059 is in the 81st 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 Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-7824Low

dbus: local denial of service via incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3636

Nov 10, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0457.html
bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/62603
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/98576
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3099
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/11/10/2
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/71012
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2425-1