Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-1172

Title: Freedesktop Dbus-Glib Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-1172.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Aug 20, 2010

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.07%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-1172: DBus-GLib 0.73 disregards the access flag of exported GObject properties, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and possibly cause a denial of service by modifying properties, as demonstrated by properties of the (1) DeviceKit-Power, (2) NetworkManager, and (3) ModemManager services.

Impacted Vendors

freedesktop 1

Reference Links

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-glib/commit/?h=rhel5&id=9a6bce9b615abca6068348c1606ba8eaf13d9ae0 http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/40908 http://secunia.com/advisories/40925 http://secunia.com/advisories/42397 http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100113103 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0616.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42347 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2063 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3097 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585394 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61041 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-glib/commit/?h=rhel5&id=9a6bce9b615abca6068348c1606ba8eaf13d9ae0 http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/40908 http://secunia.com/advisories/40925 http://secunia.com/advisories/42397 http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100113103 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0616.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42347 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2063 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3097 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585394 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61041

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-1172 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 20, 2010 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.