CVE-2020-35512

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in D-Bus Development branch <= 1.13.16, dbus-1.12.x stable branch <= 1.12.18, and dbus-1.10.x and older branches <= 1.10.30 when a system has multiple usernames sharing the same UID. When a set of policy rules references these usernames, D-Bus may free some memory in the heap, which is still used by data structures necessary for the other usernames sharing the UID, possibly leading to a crash or other undefined behaviors

Affected products

Freedesktop Dbus: 1.12.20

References

https://bugs.gentoo.org/755392
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1909101
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/issues/305#note_829128
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-35512
https://bugs.gentoo.org/755392
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1909101
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/issues/305#note_829128
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-35512

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