CVE-2026-16730 PUBLISHED

Dbus-broker: dbus-broker: session bus denial of service via emfile during peer setup

Assigner: redhat
Reserved: 23.07.2026 Published: 24.07.2026 Updated: 24.07.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 5.5

Product Status

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Hardened Images
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Versions Default: unknown

Credits

  • Red Hat would like to thank Josh Simmons for reporting this issue.

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions CWE