CVE-2026-16730

medium

Description

A flaw was found in dbus-broker. When the process file-descriptor limit is reached, EMFILE/ENFILE errors during peer setup (notably SO_PEERPIDFD) are handled as fatal failures, causing the broker to exit. A local attacker who can open many connections to the user session bus can trigger this and deny service to the desktop session. Flatpak applications can reach the host session bus through the dbus proxy.

References

https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/issues/435

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2506348

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16730

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-24

Updated: 2026-07-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00107